Most analysts believe that the economy will grow weakly or stagnate in 2025, with optimistic figures from the beginning of the year being revised down sub-unitly. A new report released on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) shows a decrease in final electricity consumption, amounting to 41.456 billion kWh, 0.2% lower than the period from January 1 to October 31, 2024, while final electricity consumption in the economy decreased by 0.6%. However, household consumption increased by 1.1%, which exceeds the figure put forward by financial analysts for the evolution of the economy. For 2025, CFA Romania analysts anticipate modest economic growth in Romania, around 0.6%, amid falling consumption, uncertainty, inflation and a high budget deficit, estimated at over 8% of GDP, with pressure on the leu and housing prices, although macroeconomic confidence shows signs of stabilization or even slight localized growth. The World Bank has also revised its growth forecast for the entire year 2025, which was adjusted to 0.4% (in October 2025), from 1.3% (estimated in June 2025).
A negative evolution was also marked by public lighting, which recorded a decrease of 5.1%.
At the same time, Romania’s primary energy resources increased by 4.9% in the first ten months of the current year, compared to the same period in 2024.
According to centralized data, between January 1 and October 31, 2025, electricity resources increased by 4.8% (to 57.219 billion kWh), compared to the first ten months of the previous year.
The main primary energy resources totaled 28.346 million tons of oil equivalent (toe), up by 1.334 million toe, year-on-year, and domestic production amounted to 13.709 million toe, down by 385,900 toe (-2.7%), while imports were 14.636 million toe, up by 1.720 million toe (+13.3%).
INS data reveal that, at the end of October this year, production from thermal power plants was 13.812 billion kWh, down by 251.2 million kWh (-1.8%), production from hydroelectric power plants was 9.816 billion kWh (-21.7%), and that from nuclear power plants amounted to 9.053 billion kWh (+1.6%).
Also, production from wind power plants decreased by 249.3 million kWh, in ten months, to 4.818 billion kWh, and solar energy produced in photovoltaic installations was 4.283 billion kWh, up by 1.108 billion kWh.
