Electricity
In 2006 Romania produced a total of 62 TWh of electricity having an installed capacity of 17,360 MW in thermal, hydro and nuclear power plants. The power generation was structured as follows:
| Fuel | Percentage 2006 |
Percentage 2005 |
Percentage 2004 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coal | 39,57% | 35,80% | 37,55% |
| Natural gas | 16,69% | 14,07% | 16,01% |
| Coke | 1,83% | 2,68% | 3,26% |
| Nuclear | 9,20% | 9,59% | 10,07% |
| Hydro | 32,02% | 37,11% | 31,61% |
| Other conventional sources |
0,68% | 0,75% | 1,50% |
| Wind | 0,00% | 0,00% | 0,00% |
| Solar | 0,00% | 0,00% | 0,00% |
| Biomass | 0,00% | 0,00% | 0,00% |
Read more about this topic: Energy Policy Of Romania
Famous quotes containing the word electricity:
“There are two great unknown forces to-day, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”
—Josephine K. Henry, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 15, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)