Small hydropower plants in Romania

The promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources (eRES) is an imperative of the current period for: environmental reasons, increasing energy independence to the diversification of energy imports and for reasons of economic and social cohesion. Romania was among the first candidate witch transposed in their legislation the Directive 2001/77/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable sources (by GD 443/2003) and set an indicative target for 2020, representing 33% eRES share of gross domestic electricity consumption.