According to data published by Romania’s National Institute for Statistics (INS), electricity consumption in the first nine months of 2025 reached 37.25 TWh, marking a slight decrease of 0.4 percent compared to the same period in 2024. Industrial consumption amounted to 28.09 TWh, down 1 percent year-on-year, while household consumption rose by 1.8 percent to 8.88 TWh. Consumption for public lighting fell by 7.5 percent, totaling around 280.3 GWh.
Total electricity production in January–September 2025 amounted to 37.23 TWh, representing a 6 percent decline from last year. Thermal power plant generation dropped by 3.8 percent to 12.16 TWh, and hydropower output fell sharply by 22.7 percent to 8.87 TWh. In contrast, production at the Cernavodă nuclear power plant increased by 0.9 percent to 8.04 TWh.
Wind power generation reached 4.19 TWh, 9.6 percent lower than in 2024, while solar power generation (including prosumers) grew by 37.7 percent to 3.98 TWh.
Romania exported 10.52 TWh of electricity in the first nine months of 2025, an increase of 28.9 percent year-on-year. Electricity imports rose even more sharply—by 48.2 percent—reaching 14.11 TWh.
Primary energy production reached 12,309.8 thousand tons of oil equivalent, 2.8 percent less than in 2024. Coal production increased by 1 percent to 1,427.1 thousand tons of oil equivalent, while oil production fell by 7.7 percent to 1,869.1 thousand tons. Natural gas production amounted to 5,577.7 thousand tons of oil equivalent, down 1 percent from last year.
