It is clear that the Romanian government cannot meet the energy needs of its citizens. Year after year, the capacity for safe electricity production is disappearing, turning Romania into a net energy importer. Importing energy means negotiating prices with the EU, which makes it difficult for UATs to cover their energy needs. It is also difficult to cover the need for thermal energy at acceptable prices for UATs (administrative-territorial units, i.e. town halls and county councils), institutions and vulnerable citizens, which are still not defined even today.
The problem is that in total energy consumption, households are higher than any sector of the economy.
Average household energy consumption shows that 48% of households are heated with wood, 30% with gas and 20% are connected to a centralized heating system, the latter located in large urban agglomerations. In the household, the largest consumption is for providing thermal energy. It follows that thermal energy is a problem of national and social security, which the state is unable to solve.
20 years ago, there were more than 200 district heating systems. There are 46 left. The largest is in Bucharest, it provides thermal energy to more than 12% of all households. With few exceptions, all of these systems suffer from performance issues and heat transfer and distribution losses. Since most SACETs had facilities that produced electricity and heat together, this means that the power generation facilities also disappeared. (Let me remind you that there is no structure in the specialized ministry that deals with heat energy.)
If we look closely, the largest amount of energy in the primary mix is used for home heating, around 35%, followed by transport at 27% and then industry at 21%. In other words, the required amount of electricity is less than the consumed thermal energy. But power generation also has problems.
Thus, the geographical distribution of power generation capacity is unbalanced, and Moldova and Transylvania suffer from energy poverty. Read the full article and comment on contributors.ro
Source: Hot News
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