The Minister of Energy, about the measures “by which we reduce the final price of the invoices”, after the meeting with the Prime Minister and ANRE. “We have a package”
Bogdan Ivan, Photo: Government of Romania
The Minister of Energy, Bogdan Ivan, told Antena 3 that he participated in “a highly applied meeting” on the measures in the sector, along with Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, Deputy Prime Minister Marian Neacșu and the representatives of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE).
The official said that the meeting focused on “two very clear proposals” regarding measures “by which we reduce the final price of the invoices” to electric current, respectively regarding the production capacities.
“We have a package that reduces the final price of the invoices, to the final consumer, in a first stage, and that package I already submitted in the Government of Romania, and now we update it, a few details. The second package we work for and started working from the first week of mandate (…) is the one regarding the production capacities,” Bogdan added.
He stated that he refers “to the production of gas -based electricity”.
“Because Romania has a lot of gas, and from 2027 it will be able to exploit the deposits in the Black Sea, Neptun Deep, and Caragele, Buzău county, which will automatically have one of the lowest gas prices in the whole European Union and use that gas to make an cheap electricity for the next 60 years, for the next 60 years.”
“The gases do not expensive”
The Minister of Energy recalled that “at the moment we have prolonged the gas ceiling scheme until March 31, 2026, next year.”
“The gases do not grow. At the electricity we are working to lower the price to the final consumer through mechanisms by which we adjust both the market and the increase of the production capacities, but, again, once again, the most substantive is the increase of the production capacity, but the effects here will see them starting with a year and a half, I have every year, Involved, I check them every week how each of these projects evolves, and in the next year and a half we will be produced at national level 2,000 MW – production ”, concluded Minister Bogdan Ivan.
