Share of renewable energy in final energy consumption

Hydropower is currently Romania’s main source of renewable energy, representing approximately 34% of final electricity consumption. In 2023, the installed capacity of wind power plants was 3 026.91 MW, or 16% of the net installed capacity, but contributed only 13% to total electricity production, due to variability. At the beginning of 2024, the net installed capacity of solar sources was 1 624 MW, up from 1 185 MW in 2023. In 2023, only 0.69% of the electricity produced in Romania came from biomass, bioliquids, biogas, waste and/or waste and sludge fermentation gases, totalling 118 MW of installed capacity. The use of geothermal energy .

Romania has set the objective of achieving a 30.7% share of energy from renewable sources in gross final energy consumption by 2030, taking national circumstances into consideration, compared with the shares of 24.4% achieved in 2020 and . The latest available data show an increase to 25.8% in 2023 (see graph).

The Renewable Energy Directive provides citizens who produce their own renewable energy with a clear right to consume, store or sell their generated energy. Small-scale installations for the production of electricity from renewable sources consisted of approximately 40 000 prosumers in 2022, with an installed capacity of 417 MW, which is rather low compared with that in other Member States .