The largest electricity producer in Romania recommends to build the Islaz dam with a pumped storage hydroelectric facility 0 The hydropower cascade on the lower part of the Olt river in Romania could be expanded by one facility Romania’s state-owned Hidroelectrica prepared a proposition for next month’s shareholder meeting to build the Islaz project at a site 3.5 kilometers from where the river meets the Danube the investment is valued at EUR 450 million The change was attributed to galloping inflation The suggested dam would mostly be used for irrigation flood prevention and a road crossing while 30% is envisaged for energy purposes the nation’s biggest electricity producer said a conventional hydropower plant would run below the profitability threshold so it is promoting it as a pumped storage project The calculation is based on an electricity price of EUR 204 per MWh with a 1% annual increase over the next 35 years including five years for construction Electricity prices in the previous decade were too low while the coronavirus pandemic The plans for Islaz have long been on hold The company said electricity prices in the previous decade were too low and that the coronavirus pandemic prevented it from developing the project further until recently Islaz would have four turbines with a combined capacity of 28.8 MW Hidroelectrica said its purpose would be to pump water to other hydropower reservoirs upstream the longest river flowing only through Romania The planned facility would consume 375 GWh per year for pumping and produce 275 GWh from storage As still the only conventional technology for the purpose they have a crucial role for the integration of renewable electricity production capacities Such systems largely depend on weather conditions so their output can’t be predicted with much precision pumped storage hydroelectric units send water from the lower to the upper reservoir It is released for the production of electricity at times of higher demand (and prices) for instance when there is no sunshine for solar panels Alternative solutions for energy storage are hydrogen and giant electric boilers that heat up water Neighboring Serbia said in May that it is discussing the Đerdap 3 hybrid power plant project with Romania The two countries are jointly running the Đerdap 1 and Đerdap 2 hydropower plants on their border on the Danube Be the first one to comment on this article 05 May 2025 - The Trebinje 3 photovoltaic plant would have an installed capacity of 53.63 MW and an estimated annual production of 85.5 GWh 05 May 2025 - VDE Renewables found that SolarEdge’s advanced safety capabilities minimize photovoltaic system risks and effectively prevent fire hazards 02 May 2025 - The project is located in Constanța county recognized for its superior yields in green energy production 02 May 2025 - The Sunčana (Sunny) Vipava project envisages installing solar power plants with a combined capacity of 20 MW © CENTER FOR PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2008-2020 website developed by ogitive Romania initiated market consultations for its Tarnița-Lapuștești pumped storage hydropower project Photo: Cristian Bortes on Flickr / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 0 The Ministry of Energy has commenced market consultations for the Tarnița-Lapuștești pumped storage hydropower project on the Somesul Cald river in Cluj county, in partnership with state energy investment fund SAPE The process includes cost calculation and a pre-feasibility study debate aimed at establishing solutions for the electricity storage plant The Tarnița-Lapuștești pumped storage facility would be the largest hydroelectric load balancing system in the country The project promises numerous advantages and functions for the national energy system including increased safety of the national energy system and the provision of reserves for frequency and voltage adjustments It added that the plant would help restore network operations in the event of a power failure The ministry called on market participants to submit nonbinding offers by August 8 The plant will contribute to balancing more than 4 GW of intermittent wind power It will also contribute to balancing power and managing intermittent renewable energy sources ensuring optimal conditions for installing wind power plants with over 4 GW in capacity Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja pointed out that the government intends to tap on European funds and the Modernisation Fund in particular for the project plans for Tarnița-Lapuștești date back to the 1970s After leaving it dormant for decades, the government gave its approval in 2019 and established a company called Hidro Tarniţa to implement the project The investment was estimated at EUR 1.15 billion and the plan anticipated a seven-year construction timeline with commissioning in two stages 30 April 2025 - OMV put into operation its 10 MW green hydrogen plant at the Schwechat refinery 30 April 2025 - It is the second time this year that MVM contracted gas-fueled and hydrogen-ready power plants at sites of former fossil fuel facilities Reviews His best movies embody a kind of stylistic paradox: they are slow-paced but also narratively concise; they contain long slow scenes in which nothing in particular “happens” but they also feel entirely fat-free.  Porumboiu’s new picture “The Treasure” is entirely in keeping with that mode but also expands on it, with disarmingly delightful results. It is in a sense the director’s first out-and-out comedy, and it’s also something of a fairytale. No sooner has the movie begun, with working man Costi (Toma Cuzin) invoking Robin Hood to gain his son’s pardon for picking him up from school late than the not-thematically-unrelated premise pops up: Costi’s neighbor Adrian (Adrian Parcarescu) knocks on the door and requests an 800 Euro loan but soon Adrian is spinning an intriguing tale: he wants the money to buy a metal detector to go searching for buried treasure in the yard of a relative’s house in the country.  and soon they’re in the village of Islaz with picks and shovels and a metal detector whose annoying noise means real encouragement for their prospects the fellows discover that digging for treasure is no picnic and Porumboiu is painstaking in depicting the hard labor and quiet frustration By this time the movie has found a quiet comic tone that’s terrifically dry and droll Trying to mask his activities from his boss Costi goes along with that fellow’s suggestions that he’s involved in an extramarital affair which admission first elicits the man’s nudge-nudge-wink-wink approval a little reminiscent of the work of Aki Kaurismäki albeit without that filmmaker’s wooly-headed whimsy to be a good “Godot” person if you’re going to appreciate the push-me/pull-you tensions of the digging scene may prove richly satisfying to viewers more accustomed to conventional fare provided they’ve been able to stick it out The film’s final scene is both charming and hilarious and puts a delightful ribbon on top of what the film’s opening so sneakily established I’m not sure if Porumboiu’s choice of a closing song—it’s by Laibach just to let you know—is meant to undercut the ending or not Glenn Kenny was the chief film critic of Premiere magazine for almost half of its existence. He has written for a host of other publications and resides in Brooklyn. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here the Concordia Department of Studio Arts’ photography program awards the Roloff Beny Foundation Fellowship in Photography to a graduate student for his or her outstanding artistic and academic achievement Stoica used the funds to travel to his native Romania for two months in summer 2015 to work on a film project “Part of the Romanian identity is travelling through the landscape but doing fiction means you have to have a plan and it stops you from seeing what’s around you looked around and interacted with the landscape Stoica is now in the midst of completing the film called Catherine et ce qu’il reste à traduire de cet été qui a assoupi la terre he plans to continue working in video and cinema and further pursue his studies As his artist’s statement says: “My artistic approach builds on a deep-rooted desire to understand and explore the intimate and emotional facets of our existence I aim within my work to both mirror and conceptualize the intrinsic links between memory and identity.”