Romania's energy output fell by an annual 5.7% in the first three months of the year, the statistical office, INS, said on Wednesday.
Romania's January-March energy production totalled 4.705 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE), INS said in a statement. Imports amounted to 3.681 million TOE, up 2.4% on the year.
Romania's electricity output and imports totalled 17.649 TWh in January-March, up 1% on the year.
During the first three months of 2021, thermal power plants generated some 6.05 TWh of electricity, down 2.3% on the year, while the output of hydroelectric power stations jumped by an annual 31.5% to 4.51 TWh.
The production of the country's sole nuclear power plant fell 6.6% on the year to some 12.86 TWh in January-March.
Wind farms generated 2.02 TWh, down by an annual 12.6%, and solar plants produced 0.29 TWh, 11.2% lower on the year, in January-March.
Final electricity consumption edged up by an annual 0.5% to 14.2 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports edged down by an annual 0.5% to 1.61 TWh in January-March, while imports fell 11.1% on the year to 1.88 TWh.
The country produced 773,600 TOE of crude oil, down 6.8% on the year, and 733,600 TOE of coal, down 11.2%, during the first three months of 2021. Natural gas production rose 9.7% year-on-year, reaching 1.9 million TOE.
Romania's energy production fell 9.8% year-on-year to 17.98 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE) in 2020.
A TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric tonne of crude oil.
(SeeNews, May 12 , 2021)
