Business Forum • 18 March, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Romania is recording a sensible deterioration in electricity consumption in Romania, but electrification and data management, artificial intelligence will lead to an increase in this consumption over the next five years, stated Corneliu Bodea, President of the Romanian Energy Center (CRE).
The CRE head added that further investments in the electricity sector will lead to a growth of demand by 2030.
“In the first three months of this year alone, from data I checked yesterday – well, the first two months, given we're now into the third – electricity consumption seems to have decreased by 1.8% compared to the same period last year. However, if we look at a longer timeframe, say, using 2018 as a baseline, the drop in electricity consumption in Romania appears to have exceeded 10% when compared to 2024,” said Bodea, during an energy event, quoted by Agerpres.
Bodea argued that electrification – including the shift to electric transport and heating from gas, oil, and biomass – will significantly increase electricity consumption in Romania over the next 5 years.