ROMANIA'S SHIFT TO GREEN ENERGY GETS UNDER WAY

摘要

Romania may look back on the summer of 2010 as a key period in the history of its energy economy, one when it began its transformation into a significant player in Europe's renewable energy sector. Obstacles remain, but two events suggest that the nation of 22 million, long powered by coal and large-scale hydroelectric plants, is finally ready to start fulfilling its widely-recognised clean energy potential. June saw the grid connection of the first turbines at the Fantanele wind farm, which together with its adjacent sister-project at Cogealac will create a 600 MW facility -Europe's biggest onshore wind complex - when fully commissioned (see box panel on page 14).