Business | 18 June, 2024 at 7:00 AM
OMV Petrom to invest €2 billion by 2030 in Petrobrazi refinery
The refinery currently supplies around 30% of Romania's fuel needs and will continue to play a key role in the transport sector.
The refinery currently supplies around 30% of Romania's fuel needs and will continue to play a key role in the transport sector.
Romanian brewing companies have invested in advanced wastewater treatment plants to treat and reuse water and reduce the pollution load on local water bodies.
EBRD will invest €15 million in Eldrive Holding GmbH (Eldrive), a leading regional charging point operator in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Romania.
IFC provided long-term debt financing for the 461-megawatt (MW) Vifor Wind Power Plant, to boost the supply of competitively priced renewable energy in Romania.
This campaign reflects their commitment to achieving climate neutrality across their entire business by 2040.
The project is located in Buzău County and the first phase, which will last until 2025, will see the installation of 30 Vestas wind turbines.
EBRD will lend €32 million, as part of a €291 million financing package, to build and operate a 192 MW onshore wind farm in Romania.
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EBRD is financing the first private energy deal led by a foreign investor to add renewable generation capacity in Ukraine since February 2022.
The European Commission announced that it would apply additional tariffs of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric vehicles from next month.
Eurowind Energy announced that it has obtained the construction permit for the Frumusița wind farm in Galati County.
Engie Romania, together with EFdeN, launched the Sustainable Prosumer Guide, a set of recommendations for becoming a sustainable prosumer.
OMV Petrom will invest approximately €750 million at Petrobrazi to transform the refinery into the first major producer of sustainable fuels in the region.
Visual Fan in association with Waldevar Energy, announced the signing of a contract with Rondocarton S.R.L. for the implementation of a 1 MWp Full EPC project.
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Average CO2 emissions from all new cars registered in Europe in 2023 continued to decrease and were 1.4% lower than in 2022.
Nuclearelectrica and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced the commencement of construction for Europe's first tritium removal facility at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant.
Europe's air quality improved but EU standards are still not met across Europe, the European Environment Agency (EEA) analysis shows.
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The Faculty of Hydrotechnics from the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest and Waldevar Floating PV have signed a strategic partnership to accelerate innovation in renewable energy and prepare the next generation of specialists in floating photovoltaic technologies.
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Sinovoltaics has launched PV Lab Test Advisor v1.0, a web-based assessment tool designed to build project-specific reliability testing scopes for utility-scale solar PV projects.
In a video interview recorded at Bratislava Property Forum 2026, Hubert Abt FRICS, CEO of workcloud24, explains why energy performance is emerging as the most important operational metric, how investors are approaching sustainability and what it takes to create real value through data-driven asset management.
