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Reporter: How did 2024 end for energy suppliers, and what are the prospects for 2025?

The Parliament established following the 2020 elections ends its four-year mandate today, a period that can be characterized as one marked by major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis following the war in Ukraine, political...

The balance sheet of his own government is a positive one, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu claimed yesterday, at the end of the government meeting, in a press statement in which he presented the main achievements of his mandate. Unfortunately, the...

The Association of Electricity and Gas Suppliers in Romania (AFEER) draws attention to a 10% increase in natural gas bills for household consumers, starting January 1, 2025, if Parliament does not quickly adopt a legislative amendment. The gas...

The publication by Transelectrica of the prices regarding the energy balancing market displeased the electricity suppliers, who found that, although they sell a megawatt (MW) for 400 lei, they have to pay a balancing price of 1890 lei/MW. Among...

The PSD-PNL coalition has given two governments since December 2021, Ciucă and Ciolacu, whose results are similar, with identical governance mistakes, although the leadership was different. Because both the PSD in the August 24 Congress and the...

Companies and natural persons who pay their outstanding main debts to the state budget by August 31, 2024, will benefit from the cancellation of the ancillary debts calculated for the payment obligations, according to the emergency ordinance...

Amending the Fiscal Code, without introducing new fees and taxes and without increasing the existing ones, amending the single salary law in the budget system in order to fulfill the reform included in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan -...

• Europe has made substantial investments in green energy infrastructure to reduce dependence on Russian gas, according to Insider 

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu does not have a plan, not even one copied from the Simion Plan or inspired by the Kamala Harris Plan, for the development of our country in the coming years, but only now is he trying to bury it by appealing to...

After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

Legea plafonării dobânzilor la creditele acordate de instituţiile financiare nebancare (IFN) şi la recuperatorii de creanţe are, din păcate, diferenţe mari, esenţiale, faţă de proiectul iniţial, ne-a transmis avocatul Gheorghe Piperea, actual...

The law capping interest on loans granted by non-banking financial institutions (IFNs) and debt collectors has, unfortunately, big, essential differences compared to the original draft, lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, current MEP, who wrote the draft...

Prin legea privind plafonarea dobânzilor la instituţiile financiare nebancare şi limitarea creanţelor pe care le solicită recuperatorii, act normativ care se alătură legii dării în plată, cetăţenii au un scut care îi protejează împotriva oricăror...

The law on the capping of interest at non-banking financial institutions and the limitation of claims requested by debt collectors, a normative act that joins the law of giving in payment, citizens have a shield that protects them against any...

Electromagnetica is selling eleven low-power hydropower plants, located in the Suceava River Basin, for 33.5 million lei including VAT, according to a report of the producer and supplier of energy and lighting fixtures published yesterday on the...

• "The rate of distribution of profit to dividends remained close to that of last year, with a decreasing yield, but still above the average of BSE issuers", the report states 

• 1st January 

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

This month, suppliers face huge prices on the balancing market, prices that have even reached a level of 16,000 lei per Megawatt, Laurentiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), told us.

• Sorin Mititelu: "The tariff increase is objective and was carried out in accordance with the regulations in force, at least until proven otherwise" 

Due to the existence of an oligopoly in the energy balancing market, which imposes ever higher prices, a significant part of the energy suppliers could close their doors in the next three months, if the Government, the Ministry of Energy or the...

The first month of summer was more hectic than usual due to the fact that, in addition to the budgetary problems faced by the Government, on June 9 we had European parliamentary and local elections, new amendments to normative acts in the field...

• January 1st 

The main indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) marked a succession of historical records, the first quarter of the year, in a general climate favorable to risky assets.

Social convulsions have been a constant in the first three months of the current year, with a peak in January, when almost half of the country's major cities were blocked by farmers' and transporters' protests, which lasted for three...

Political decision-makers in Bucharest continued in the last month of the first quarter of the current year to adopt decisions regarding the extension of some price capping measures and to dilute the provisions of Law 296/2023 and GEO 115/2023...

Romanian agri-food products in stores will have a capped addition of a maximum of 20%, according to a bill initiated by Florin Barbu, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Dumitru Chisăliţă, president of the Intelligent Energy Association, says that it is a good thing that our country has become a net exporter of electricity, but unfortunately we export at low prices and import at high prices, a fact that is...

The delays regarding the payment by the state of compensation for energy facts could increase significantly after the Government's approval of the draft normative act that will amend GEO 27/2022 through which the capping-compensation...

Traditionally, the second month of the year should be marked by the beginning of the first parliamentary session and less by the visibility of the work carried out by the government, but the electoral year 2024 seems out of the ordinary, in view...

The fiscal measures taken last year by the Government will contribute in 2024 to the increase in insolvencies among companies active in traditional trade and distribution firms, Constantin Dumitriu, vice-president of the Association of Romanian...

The transport operators request the Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to start the procedure for revoking Bogdan Chiriţoiu from the position of president of the Competition Council, following his recent statements regarding the calculation of RCA...

The ceilings on the price of energy, RCA policies and the commercial addition to basic foods will continue this year, due to the four rounds of elections - European, local, parliamentary and presidential, but the competition authority will ensure...

• January 1 

The political scene in our country was awakened to reality, from the sweet sleep it had fallen into during the winter holidays, on January 9, when hundreds of farmers began to move to the Capital, dissatisfied with the fiscal measures imposed by...

• January 5 

Last year, the governments of Ciucă and Ciolacu failed to comply with the state budget law approved in December 2022, a normative act drawn up by the PSD-PNL governing coalition and which provided for an increase in budget expenditures, but also...

Yesterday, the government decided to extend by another 60 days the measure of capping the commercial addition to basic foods, a measure established for the first time last year by GEO 67/2023. By the normative act adopted yesterday, the annex of...

The government was focused in the 4th financial quarter to reduce the budget deficit that it faced in the middle of the year and in the 3rd quarter, so that the officials in Brussels do not block the allocation of funds for our country from the...