This is the transcript of the message sent by Sebastian Enache, business development manager, Monsson Group, during the Energy Strategy Summit, held on June 4 at the Cantacuzino Palace from Busteni.

Hello and thank you for the invitation, the organization is excellent and I took part with interest so far. I saw many interesting points of view, most of them relevant and accurate.

I can tell you that we are in the market since the first wind turbine was erected, we are in the market since the first photovoltaic panel was installed, so we grew up with the market and I can say that to a certain moment we have helped the market grow . A funny story that took place was when we erected the first wind turbine, nobody knew what sort of authorizations should demand from us. Now we have reached a very high level of bureaucracy, to a government that every day brings changes, to a law that is constantly changing and I hope that everything will be increasingly better or the changes will be for the better.

When we erected the first wind turbine, nobody knew what sort of authorizations should demand from us.
So far with joy and sorrow I can tell you that I have noticed in the previous panels, that everybody has the same problem: instability, uncertainty, everyone is talking about a fair energy mix, Mr. [Mihai] Albulescu said three very interesting things, now everybody understood what they wanted: 1. Secured Energy; 2. Clean energy and 3. Competitive Energy Environment.

As I understand it, renewables are safe and are clean, help the decarbonisation, a term often heard today, but they are always in the background, we do not debate as to complain, but simply to bring into question some respects. Given the fact that we discuss the energy strategy, I consider it is very important to have the vision, the famous vision that was discussed, but we must also think about what we do and how we keep the energy sources we have right now. We have coal, which is depleting, we have oil, we have gas, all are depleting. As an European strategy, each country must be as self-sufficient as it can, regarding the energy, behold, Romania has this possibility. From our point of view, a coherent and comprehensive strategy should go two ways. One of the ways is how to make an existing resource management as efficient, so we can have as much time as possible and to earn as much money as possible, from the resources that we have. That does not mean that we have to use them all up right now, to use them up domestically. Another point that is very important and which we support in terms of the strategy is that by 2020 the energy exports should increase to 100%. It is mandatory to use all the resources that we have, so we can integrate in all the markets where we can reach, not only to produce them locally and use them only here.

A point that we support in terms of the strategy is that by 2020 energy exports must increase to 100%.
A friend of renewables, a strategic friend of renewables, is not Mr. [Remus] Borza, but hydropower in general, but we have seen today an approach of Hidroelectrica towards the renewables, a recognition that when they entered the market, the energy prices fell, not for the consumers it is true, but the energy market clearly has decreased. Why ? Somehow it makes sense: the more production you have, the price falls. And another aspect that nobody comes to light is to say that, in the last 5-10 years, the technologies we’ve installed in Romania are the latest technologies, are the best, and in terms of energy quality, we are, let’s  say, way above other energy sources. As a target, we must have, it is my opinion and that of those in the industry and certainly there are others with the same opinion, we must look at the trend of the European Union countries, we must see that all EU countries increase the amount of renewable energy, they rely heavily on the development of renewable energies, because they maintain their own sources for as long as possible. I think an easy or hard to reach target may be that by 2050, 50% of the total, should represent renewable energy and for the rest a fair energy mix to help coal – to use it less and conserving it as much as possible – nuclear, hydro, renewable and gas would be an excellent solution.