Author: Cosmin Stavaru

1. A historical momentum The EU support for renewables, fostered from the outset by climate change and environmental/health as well as energy independence concerns, has prompted across the years a booming renewable business. Then the war in Ukraine broke out… Read moreLegal framework as an accelerator for deployment of renewables – the good, the bad and everything in between

 1. Background Bucharest is currently going down a rocky road insofar as urban regulations are concerned, which have gone through a real odyssey, from being judicially and administratively suspended, to some of them ending up by being finally cancelled by… Read moreThe odyssey of urban planning in Bucharest

1. Overview Grid connection in Romania is mainly regulated by ANRE Order no. 59/2013 approving the public grid connection regulation (the “Connection Regulation”), which has already been amended twice in 2022 (under ANRE Orders no. 17/2022 and 81/2022) and will… Read moreGrid connection of renewables in Romania – challenges, endeavors, solutions

1. Background The EU has committed itself under the European Green Deal to decarbonizing the European economy and becoming carbon neutral by 2050. To this end, an accelerated transition from fossil fuels as a primary energy source to renewable energy… Read moreEnergy storage in the European Union and Romania – an overview

1. General Relatively recently, the legislative process has once more turned its attention to the former Draft Law amending Law no. 186/2013 on the establishment and operation of industrial parks (DL-x no. 250/2014) adopted by the Senate on 28 April… Read moreIndustrial parks as business infrastructure in Romania – current situation and upcoming legislative changes

I. Introduction – a versatile and colorful source Hydrogen seems to become the new trend in sustainable energy production and there is an effervescence of clean hydrogen production projects across the world. Thus, it is estimated that clean hydrogen could… Read moreGreen hydrogen in Romania – embracing the future

Significant changes to the legal framework governing the electricity sector were enacted at the end of 2021 under Government Emergency Ordinance no. 143/2021 (Ordinance 143) and ANRE Order no. 137/2021 (Order 137).  Among these changes, two categories are of outmost… Read moreElectricity in motion – new rules for wholesale trading and connection to the grid