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CCP Climate Lawfare Against U.S. Energy Exposed Before Senate Judiciary Committee
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is financially backing left-wing climate lawfare in the United States, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, and dark money expert Scott Walter revealed the shady details while testifying...

Romania extends investment in solar for public institutions
Romania’s Ministry of Energy is backing 47 solar projects to produce electricity for self-consumption in schools, hospitals, city halls and other public institutions. It has now supported more than 1,000 such contracts, together reaching a...

Romanian group Simtel receives go-ahead for EUR 30 mln corporate bond program
Simtel (BVB: SMTL), an engineering and technology group listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, announced on Thursday, June 19, that the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority has approved the base prospectus for a corporate...

Romania’s Sphera Franchise opens chocolate & ice cream café in Italy
Sphera Franchise Group, the largest food service group in Romania, has opened its first Cioccolatitaliani store in the seaside resort of Riccione, in Italy’s Rimini tourist area. This marks the official launch of Sphera Group’s development plan...

Romanian developer STC Partners purchases land for residential project in Pipera
Real estate developer STC Partners has finalized the acquisition of a plot of land in Pipera, on the northern edge of Bucharest, where it will develop the residential project Quartier Pipera. The plot has a surface area of over 1.6 hectares and...

Romania’s construction output down 0.5% y/y in April after buoyant Q1
The construction works volume in Romania decreased by 0.5% y/y in gross terms and by 2.8% in workday and seasonal adjusted terms in April, after it boasted a robust 10.6% y/y advance in Q1 (largely on low base effects), according to data published...

One year before deadline, Romania risks losing 27% of Resilience Facility funding
The European Commission imposed "firm and rigorous conditions" for the investments funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), and this resulted in an estimated risk of losing EUR 7.8 billion (27%) out of a total envelope of EUR...

Construction costs allegedly unpaid for three more expo pavilions
Construction costs for three more foreign pavilions at the ongoing 2025 Osaka Expo allegedly remain unpaid to subcontractors, sources said Thursday. The total amount of unpaid costs for the German, Serbian and Romanian pavilions are said to reach...

Romania Evacuates Citizens from Middle East Conflict Zone
Today, June 20, Romania successfully evacuated 121 citizens who were in the armed conflict zone in the Middle East, along with their families. Another 37 people are expected to arrive shortly. Two military aircraft were involved in this operation,...

LONGi powers Romania’s energy transitionwith BC technology
LONGi has deployed 54.1MW of its Hi-MO 9 back contact (BC) modules at a solar park in Romania’s Arad county. Developed for NEPI Rockcastle (a SOLPOWER Energy subsidiary) and engineered by EPC partner Enevo Group, this utility-scale...

Romania’s Timișoara announces plans for two new bridges over Bega River
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, announced on Friday, June 20, that two new bridges over the Bega River will be built in the city. The bridges will be financed with EU-backed funds worth over RON 130 million. The bridges in question are the...

Eurowind Energy is developing its largest solar park in Romania
Eurowind Energy, a Danish renewable energy company, is constructing a new solar plant in Vișina, Dâmbovița County. The 220-megawatt (MW) installation will be the company’s largest project in Romania and one of the largest in the country. The...

Grants for public institutions’ solar projects in Romania top EUR 500 million
The 29 grants, financed from the European Union’s Modernisation Fund, will help build solar power plants with a total installed capacity of 9.13 MW at schools, hospitals, city halls, and other institutions across Romania. It brings the total...

NATO testing Baltic Sea drones to track Russian warships, freighters
MILAN — U.S.-based Saildrone deployed a handful of unmanned surface vessels as part of NATO’s Task Force X demonstration in the Baltic Sea, which helped detect and track Russian shadow-fleet vessels operating in the area, according to the company....
Curtiss-Wright providing turret drive stabilization technology for Romania’s ANUBIS 3.0 remote controlled weapons station

Romania: R.Power building 254MWh BESS, Electrica procuring 70MWh EPC works
R.Power in Romania The company will start construction on the 127MW/254MWh Scornicesti battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Romania in Q3 2025. It will connect to the high-voltage network of transmission system operator (TSO)...

Romanian car dealers raise alarm over suspended scrappage grant scheme amid deficit concerns
Romania’s major automotive associations have voiced concern after the Government suspended its flagship 2025 scrappage grant scheme, citing fiscal constraints. The Association of Motorcycle Importers and Distributors in Romania (AIDMM) and the...

Romanian utility launches 70 MWh storage tender
Romanian utility Electrica S.A. Group has launched a tender for the deployment of a battery energy storage project with a power output of 35MW and a storage capacity of 70 MWh. The project is planned to be located in Fantanele, Mures county, in...
Voluntary Adoption of Nutri-Score Approved in Romania
Summary Romanian consumers will soon see Nutri-Score front-of-pack labels on food packages, following the government’s decision to adopt the system after years of uncertainty. Nutri-Score rates the healthiness of food products with a...

Expert: Baku can become a hub for low-carbon energy solutions - INTERVIEW
Baku, June 25, AZERTAC AZERTAC presents an exclusive interview with Casiana Fometescu, Founder and CEO of Carbon Expert, President of the Romanian Carbon Association, Ph.D. in Economics. - How do you assess the current state of the global carbon...