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Power plants in Romania

68 power-plant records · 14,647 MW reported capacity

  • Solar 53%
  • Coal 15%
  • Hydro 15%
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Romania at a glance

Power-plant records
68
Reported capacity
14,647 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
46.5%
Most records
Solar, Coal
Grid operator
Transelectrica
Capital
Bucharest

Largest listed power plants

  1. 1Turceni power station1,650 MW
  2. 2Rovinari power station1,320 MW
  3. 3NPP Cernavoda1,298 MW
  4. 4HPP Portile de Fier I1,161 MW
  5. 5Mintia-Deva power station1,075 MW
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Records by technology

Counts records, not generation share · coverage & dates

Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.

How electricity works in Romania

Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail

Hydro, nuclear (Cernavodă) and coal supply the grid, with fast-growing solar. OPCOM runs the market, coupled with the EU.

  1. GenerationCompeting generators
  2. TransmissionIndependent grid operator
  3. DistributionRegulated local networks
  4. CustomersYou choose a supplier

Who regulates

  • ANREEnergy regulator

Who controls the grid

Transelectrica, majority owned by the state, runs transmission; regional companies run distribution.

Markets & power exchanges

Regional grid

  • ENTSO-E · Continental European gridRegional grid

    Part of the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the largest interconnected grid in the world by customers, coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.

What does “Liberalised market” mean?

Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.

References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.

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ELECTRICITY IN 2024

How Romania generates electricity

Electricity generated52.7 TWh
Renewable share46.5%
Low-carbon share67.2%
Carbon intensity251.3 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro14.2 TWh
Wind6.4 TWh
Solar3.4 TWh
Bioenergy0.48 TWh
Other renewables0 TWh
Nuclear10.9 TWh
Coal7.1 TWh
Gas10 TWh
Other fossil0.18 TWh

Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

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Geography and data notes

The Carpathian arc encloses the Transylvanian plateau in Romania. The Danube follows much of the southern border before reaching its delta on the Black Sea.

Capital
Bucharest
Languages
Romanian
Major cities
Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara

Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.

The source inventory contains 68 records for Romania. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.

Inventory coverage

68 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.

60 lack an owner/operator; 55 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
THE GENERATION INVENTORY

List of power plants in Romania

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Browse 68 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.

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1,650 MW
Owner in source
Complexul Energetic Oltenia SA
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
1983
Source status
Operating status unverified
GCPT · historical recordDetails & map
1,320 MW
Owner in source
CE Oltenia Complexul Energetic
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
1977
Source status
Operating status unverified
GCPT · historical recordDetails & map
1,298 MW
Owner in source
Not reported
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
Not reported
Source status
Operating status unverified
ENTSOE · historical recordDetails & map
751 MW
Owner in source
Not reported
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
Not reported
Source status
Operating status unverified
ENTSOE · historical recordDetails & map
630 MW
Owner in source
SC Complexul Energetic Craiova
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
1988
Source status
Operating status unverified
GCPT · historical recordDetails & map
509 MW
Owner in source
Not reported
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
Not reported
Source status
Operating status unverified
ENTSOE · historical recordDetails & map
413 MW
Owner in source
Not reported
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
Not reported
Source status
Operating status unverified
ENTSOE · historical recordDetails & map
346 MW
Owner in source
Not reported
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
Not reported
Source status
Operating status unverified
ENTSOE · historical recordDetails & map
335 MW
Owner in source
Not reported
Operator in source
Not reported
Commissioned
1986
Source status
Operating status unverified
ENTSOE · historical recordDetails & map

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