Romania: Growing wind sector not blown out of proportion

Romania’s wind sector is estimated to triple capacity through to 2013, reaching 3,000 MW, with another few thousand MW on paper, but growth in this sector is sustainable and bears no resemblance to the real estate bubble that burst about three years ago.

The country climbed two positions to tenth place for wind sources in February, ranking alongside Ireland and Poland in the Country Attractiveness Index published by Ernst & Young (E&Y) consultancy. Transelectrica, the local grid operator, is flooded with projects for wind capacities. This April, there were grid connection contracts for 10,458 MW and technical connection agreements (ATR) for 9,416 MW. Additionally, Transelectrica has received requests for solution studies (technical-economical studies) for wind projects totaling around 15,000 MW.
Boom not bubble

Wind is not becoming a bubble because this would have meant an unfulfilled promise and the increase in capacities to over 1.200 MW this March from 14 MW three years ago doesn’t constitute that, according to the Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA).

Source: http://business-review.ro/growing-wind-sector-not-blown-out-of-proportion/