Romania’s market is entering a new investment cycle, and ENEVO Group is positioning itself at the intersection of EPC, digitalization, and high-value operational services. Radu Brașoveanu, Co-Founder & CTO of ENEVO Group, talks about the company’s accelerated growth, the balancing of its portfolio between Romania and external markets, and its expansion into asset operations, energy trading, and cybersecurity. In a context where data centers, storage, and power infrastructure are reshaping demand and performance standards, clear differentiation increasingly comes from the ability to deliver large and complex projects.
The EPC sector has expanded sharply in recent years, but competition is becoming increasingly tougher. What are ENEVO Group’s differentiators?
The EPC sector in renewable energy has intensified significantly, and the competitive pressure is very real. But ENEVO Group’s differentiation does not lie in a single element, but in a combination of capabilities that are difficult to replicate at the same time. We cover the entire EPC chain, including the design and construction of high-voltage substations for grid connection, an aspect many competitors subcontract, which gives us delivery speed and full control over quality and deadlines.
We are bankable and structured as a trusted partner for investors and private funds, which generate over 90% of the group’s activity. And our track record speaks for itself: in 2025, we delivered the 70 MW Teiuș PV plant, the largest energy project financed through the PNRR, including the 110/20 kV substation and the 80 MVA transformer; the 54.11 MWp Chișineu-Criș PV plant, the first project in Romania to use LONGi Hi-MO9 panels and the first such investment in Central and Eastern Europe; and the 50 MW Giurgiu PV plant, a reconversion project on a former industrial site.
To these we add our organizational culture: when difficult situations arise, we remain committed until resolution, and clients return precisely because they know we are always there.
What does ENEVO Group look like in 2026 from a business model perspective, and how does it plan to evolve over the next 2–3 years?
ENEVO Group entered 2026 from a position of strength, with a turnover of €135 million in 2025 and an ambitious target of over €350 million for the current year. We are organized around three divisions: Renewables, Power T&D, and Automation, and we cover the full project lifecycle, from engineering and procurement through to construction, commissioning, operations, and cybersecurity.
The largest share of revenue comes from EPC activity, the backbone of the group, but service segments – dispatch operations, monitoring, energy trading, and O&M – are gaining increasing weight, as are our proprietary products: SentryOT, a cybersecurity solution for critical industrial infrastructure, and the Energy Management System platforms, which we sell and deploy to external clients.
Over the next two to three years, we aim to consolidate our position as a true one-stop shop: clients build with us, operate with us, and are protected by us, supported by consistent investment in digitalization, automation, and our own dispatch center, DLC ENEVO OmniSOC.
You have recently spoken about a “three-seat dispatch center”. What does this mean in practice?
The concept of a “three-seat dispatch center” reflects the shift toward integrated solutions that we are now living. DLC ENEVO OmniSOC brings together, at the same operational level, three distinct functions: technical dispatch (real-time monitoring of photovoltaic power plants and battery energy storage systems), energy trading (commercial optimization of generation and storage based on market prices), and a Security Operations Center (OT infrastructure cybersecurity protection via the SentryOT platform).
Our clients are renewable energy producers and energy storage system operators. Client commitments include continuous operational availability, active commercial optimization, and high cyber resilience. Our target for end-2026 is to bring a portfolio of up to 1 GW under OmniSOC monitoring, a significant but realistic growth target given the rate of completion of projects in the pipeline.
ENEVO Group is one of the pioneers in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. What is the company’s portfolio today? Are rapid-response (on-call) services relevant for the local market? What potential do they hold for global markets?
SentryOT is the first and only solution built entirely in Romania dedicated to protecting Operational Technology networks, designed specifically for critical infrastructure in the power, natural gas, water, and oil and gas sectors. Its functionalities cover full visibility across OT environments, real-time correlation of security events with operational command flows, contextual alerting, and early-stage attack detection.
Rapid incident response services are increasingly relevant in the local market; following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, cyberattacks on Romania’s energy infrastructure have grown significantly in both frequency and complexity. At the international level, the NIS 2 Directive imposes strict requirements on critical infrastructure operators, and SentryOT is already aligned with these standards.
Our advantage comes from a dual specialization: the team understands both power engineering and OT security, enabling solutions adapted to field realities rather than generic IT products.
In the energy storage space, what is ENEVO Group doing concretely today? What market risks do you see and what internal capabilities are you building to manage them?
In the energy storage space, ENEVO Group is currently one of the most active players in Romania, with a portfolio of over 1 GWh in BESS projects under execution: Crucea Nord (72 MWh), Alpha Wind Nord (76 MWh), Fântânele (72 MWh), Doicești (15 MWh), and Măruntei Vest hybrid project (60.8 MWp PV Plant with 100 MWh BESS), all with scheduled for completion in 2026.
We cover the full value chain: EPC and physical integration, Energy Management System (EMS), monetization through trading, and long-term maintenance. The main market risks are tied to the accelerated pace of adoption, which is outstripping the commercial maturity of monetization models, and to transmission network constraints, which reduce batteries’ ability to leverage their flexibility.
Internally, we are building capabilities across three areas: advanced integration engineering, EMS optimization algorithms adapted to each project profile, and operational expertise through our in-house dispatch center.
In the context of the conversation about data centers, what conditions must Romania meet in order to attract large-scale investments? What role do you see ENEVO Group playing in this segment?
Romania has enormous potential in the data center segment, but there is still ground to cover. The essential conditions for attracting large-scale investment are power infrastructure (data centers are energy-intensive consumers that require direct and reliable connections to the high-voltage transmission grid), a predictable regulatory framework over a 10-15 year horizon, and the ability to supply certified green energy, which is increasingly a requirement imposed by major tech corporations.
Romania has solar and wind resources, a skilled workforce, and a strategic position at the crossroads of European energy corridors, all of which are strong advantages. ENEVO Group’s role in this segment is a natural one: we can fully cover the power infrastructure required by a data center, from the high-voltage grid-connection substation and backup and storage systems to automation, continuous monitoring, and OT cybersecurity. We are the end-to-end technical partner for any investor looking to build a data center in Romania or in the wider region.
You have spoken about the objective of balancing the portfolio between Romania and international markets. What are the priorities for the next 12–24 months outside Romania, and what is the market entry strategy?
Internationalization is a clear priority. In Saudi Arabia, we have been present for years in oil and gas and electrical substation projects, and growing regional interest in renewables gives us the opportunity to consolidate existing relationships in the region. It is a turbulent time in the Middle East, but we have a well-structured local presence, an independent team, with which we have successfully navigated through the turbulence of the Pandemic as well.
In Europe, we have contracts in progress in Spain and Germany, have opened new subsidiaries, and are expanding collaboration with clients who previously worked with us in Romania. Our market entry strategy in each international market follows the same principle: we do not enter with an isolated offering, but with the integrated model that has established us at home, combining EPC, digitalization, and cybersecurity.
We are perceived as a mature, bankable, and scalable contractor. The medium-term target is to become the largest Romanian multinational with a presence across multiple continents, with products and solutions made in Romania while strengthening and consolidating our activities across all the markets where we are present.
You recently announced the launch of the Ogrezeni photovoltaic project, presented as one of the largest hybrid renewable energy projects in Europe. What does this project mean for Romania’s energy market?
Ogrezeni is, without a doubt, the most important project in the company’s history to date and one of the most ambitious energy projects currently under development in Europe. Our client is Enery, a major renewable energy producer active in the CEE region, with whom we already have a solid collaboration.
The project in Giurgiu County, scheduled for completion in the second half of 2027, includes an installed capacity of 761 MWp in photovoltaic panels. In its full configuration, the project will also integrate battery storage capacities, which makes it, at this moment, the largest hybrid renewable energy project in Europe. ENEVO Group covers the full EPC chain: from design and procurement, through to park construction, transformer substation delivery, and connection to the 400 kV grid.
Works started at the beginning of this year and involve not only the coordination of a multidisciplinary in-house team and the alignment of a small army of subcontractors, but also colossal supply logistics.
What does Ogrezeni mean for Romania’s energy market? Beyond its direct contribution to energy security, such a project signals that Romanian expertise exists and is capable of delivering projects of this size and technical complexity. These kinds of projects are not just one-off deliveries, but growth platforms for people and, implicitly, for the companies involved: with every completed stage, people refine their existing skills, expand their large-scale execution capacity, and consolidate exportable know-how.
For ENEVO Group, it is the latest iteration of the model that has brought us this far: increasingly larger projects, with increasingly complex requirements, which, by virtue of the way we are structured, we can approach in an integrated manner. I believe this is where we bring the most important added value. And not only in Romania.
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The interview first appeared in the printed edition of Energynomics Magazine in late March 2026.
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