AHK Romania organizes between 20.-23. January 2020 in cooperation with eclareon GmbH a business delegation to Romania (Bucharest and Cluj). The project is being implemented as part of the initiative Energy Solutions Made in Germany. Detailed information on business delegation to Romania, the market environment and the program can be found in this infoletter. Registration is possible through...
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Survey on the need for technology in the field of waste management in Romania
Waste collection and management in Romania are hot topics intensely debated by political decision makers and companies in the context of the current ambitious recycling targets and of the sanctions applied in case of failure to achieve them. As an EU member state, Romania must adhere to the common environmental targets and policies and the...
A consortium of German companies to bring electricity to isolated villages in the Apuseni mountains
100.000 households in Romania are lacking access to the power grid According to a study of the Center for Research on Democracy, 100,000 households in Romania are not connected to the electricity grid and 7,136 of those are located in villages in isolated areas. Power supply nowadays considered elementary and trivial seems for people in these households...
Virtual information trip in the field of recycling & waste management technologies, 07-10 September 2020
IFAT in Munich has been the world’s leading trade fair for the management of drinking and domestic water, waste and raw materials for fifty years. It takes place every two years in Munich and each edition is a record compared to the previous one, both in terms of the number of exhibitors and visitors. In the...
AHK business trip “Energy efficiency and renewable energies in public buildings” Romania, November 2nd to 6th, 2020
Context The energy efficiency of buildings is a priority of EU policy and aims to promote green energy. The countries of the European Union must therefore prepare long-term sustainable strategies in order to achieve the goals set. For public buildings in Romania, support for energy efficiency, intelligent energy management and use from renewable sources must also be...
Cities of Tomorrow #8 – New Waves of Urban Migration
The eighth edition of the annual Cities of Tomorrow conference, organized by AHK Romania (German-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry), emphasizes once again the relationship between people and cities, with the central theme being migration and the movement of people both internally and internationally, a topic of interest in Romania, where the effects of mass emigration over the last...
”Waste management and Recycling in Romania” project and its brochure
The Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK Romania) organizes a Romanian-German collaboration project on topic “Waste Management and Recycling in Romania”. The initiative belongs to the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Climate Protection and Nuclear Safety, being financed within the export initiative “Environment Technologies”. The project is firstly addressed to the Romanian local public...
The role of energy storage in the security of the electricity supply in Europe
Innovative energy storage solutions will play an important role in ensuring the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid in the EU at the lowest cost, according to the study “Contribution to the security of the electricity supply in Europe” recently released by the European Commission. A few take-aways from this paper: -The main...
Romanian E-mobility Index: Accelerated growth of the electric vehicles market
Roland Berger released the second edition of the Romanian E-mobility Index (REI), a bi-annual report, aiming to offer a data-driven perspective, centered around the major developments of the local market as well as related technologies. The study indicates a strong acceleration of the Romanian EV/ PHEV market, with one in every 50 new cars sold...
PPAs finally allowed for new investments in power generation
The Romanian Government has adopted an Emergency Ordinance to amend the Electricity and Natural Gas Law no. 123/2012 so as to allow producers to conclude “bilateral contracts outside the centralized market, at negotiated prices”, for electricity from new energy production capacities, put into operation after 1 June 2020. Investors in energy projects, particularly those in...