September 2024 – Romania is set to hold its first
contracts for difference ("CfD") auction in the next few
weeks. The Ministry of Energy has taken further steps and issued
the order for initiating the CfD auction under the CfD
scheme.
On 6 September 2024, Order No. 1290/2024, approving the launch
of the first auction for the State aid scheme in the form of
contracts for difference for the production of electricity from
renewable sources of onshore wind and solar photovoltaic energy, as
well as the rules of the procedure for the first auction
("Order 1290/2024"), was published in
the Official Gazette of Romania and entered into force on the same
date.
The total capacity targeted is 1,500 MW of renewables;
specifically, 1,000 MW of installed capacity for the production of
electricity from onshore wind and 500 MW of installed capacity for
the production of electricity from solar photovoltaic sources, both
as a result of the first round of auctions to be held by the
