Romania’s Electricity Market: Legal Framework, Infrastructure, and Strategic Perspectives

Romania’s energy market, molded by historical turns, regulatory shifts, and renewables’ creeping ascent, cuts a restless path. This study probes the legal and institutional girders, National Regulatory Authority for Energy (ANRE) and Transelectrica, are the entities that prop the sector up. It tracks the conduits of electricity, gas, oil; their anchorage in European Union mandates. A SWOT lens lays bare Romania’s fortes: a varied energy brew, a geography well-placed. The aging grids, policy hesitations still persist. Renewable strides and EU-funded ventures beckon as prospects; geopolitical churn and green compliance weights, though, bear down. Pointing to Romania’s chance at regional energy clout, this work sketches routes to a durable, eco-minded future.