The Government of Romania approved on Monday the Winter Program in the energy field, which aims to increase electricity consumption by 2.2% and foresees obligations to increase gas reserves by 10% and hydro reserves by 25%, announces the Ministry of Energy.

The winter program is addressed to all electricity producers and producers of electricity and heat in cogeneration and is applicable from November 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020.

The Program establishes the level of fuel stocks for the production of electricity that producers must provide until November 1, 2019, but also the required volume of water from the development lakes.

This year, the Ministry of Energy initiated the steps for the elaboration of the Winter Program from April, in order to be able to take into account all the aspects regarding the operation of the SEN, from the exit of the previous winter and until now.

For the winter period 2019-2020, an electricity consumption of almost 28 TWh is estimated, a production of 28.6 TWh of electricity and approx. 8.5 million Gcal thermal energy.

Autor: Bogdan Tudorache

Active in the economic and business press for the past 26 years, Bogdan graduated Law and then attended intensive courses in Economics and Business English. He went up to the position of editor-in-chief since 2006 and has provided management and editorial policy for numerous economic publications dedicated especially to the community of foreign investors in Romania. From 2003 to 2013 he was active mainly in the financial-banking sector. He started freelancing for Energynomics in 2013, notable for his advanced knowledge of markets, business communities and a mature editorial style, both in Romanian and English.