State energy fund SAPE launched a market consultation process to estimate the price of the construction of a storage capacity of up to 1,000 MW for a pump-storage hydropower plant, Tarnita-Lapustesti, which should intervene in the balancing of the national electricity system for durations of between 4 to 6 hours.
The Ministry of Energy is looking for benchmarks for the estimated value of the project, duration of the project’s realization, the feasibility study in order to establish the need and opportunity to achieve the investment objective, identifying possible technical-economic scenarios/options and selecting a limited number of feasible scenarios/options to achieve the investment objective and the feasibility study for the analysis, substantiation and proposal of at least two different technical[1]economic scenarios/options. The latest version of Romania’s Energy Strategy states that after 2030 pump-storage hydropower plants would be an opportunity and the capacity needed for such installations is estimated at between 850 MW and 1.1 GW by 2050.
The HPP Tarnita-Lapustesti project envisages the construction of a pump-storage hydropower plant with an output of 1,000 MW (4×250 MW). The future power plant will be built 30 kilometers northwest from Cluj-Napoca and represents a priority of national energy strategy in the period 2007- 2020.
