Romania 11-mo energy output edges up 0.6% - table

Romania's energy output edged up by an annual 0.6% in the first 11 months of 2014, while imports increased by 6.6%, the statistics office, INS, said on Wednesday.

Romania's energy production totalled 20.1 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE) through November, while imports reached 9.3 million TOE, INS said in a statement.

A TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric tonne of crude oil.

Romania's January-November energy output and imports, breakdown by type of resource (in thousands of TOE, y/y pct change in brackets):

Romania's electricity output and imports totalled 58.2 billion kilowatt hours (KWh) in the first 11 months of 2014, up 8.6% on the year.

The Romanian thermal power plants' production rose by 0.5% to some 24.1 billion KWh through November. The hydroelectric power stations' output jumped 24.6% to 17.4 billion KWh. The production of the country's sole nuclear power plant edged up 0.7% to some 10.7 billion KWh and the output of wind farms was 4.2 billion KWh, down by 42.3 million KWh from a year earlier. Solar plants produced 1.26 billion KWh, up by 848.2 million KWh compared to the first 11 months of 2013.

Final electricity consumption through November fell by an annual 0.1% to 45.3 billion KWh.

Romania’s electricity exports rose by 5.2 billion KWh to 7.5 billion KWh in the period under review, INS said.

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