According to data from the National Institute for Statistics (INS), Romania’s electricity consumption in the first half of 2025 reached 24.87 TWh, up 0.5 percent compared to the same period in 2024. Industrial electricity consumption totaled 18.65 TWh, a decrease of 0.9 percent, while household consumption rose 5.3 percent to 6.02 TWh. Public lighting usage fell 7.6 percent, reaching approximately 200.6 GWh.
Total electricity production in the first six months of 2025 amounted to 24.88 TWh, down 8.7 percent from 2024. Thermal power plants produced 8.17 TWh, a 2.2 percent decline, while hydropower output dropped 26.4 percent to 6.35 TWh. Nuclear generation at Cernavoda fell 1 percent to 5.13 TWh. Wind power production decreased 12 percent to 3 TWh, whereas solar power generation grew 33.6 percent to 2.23 TWh.
Electricity exports increased 17.5 percent to 6.9 TWh, while imports surged 57 percent to 9.38 TWh.
Primary energy production in the first half of 2025 totaled 8,137.7 million tons of oil equivalent, down 4.7 percent compared to 2024. Coal output reached 902.4 million tons of oil equivalent, a 2.9 percent decline; oil production fell 7.6 percent to 1,250.2 million tons of oil equivalent; and natural gas production decreased 1.9 percent to 3,731.6 million tons of oil equivalent.
