Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

Number and name of the Milestone: RO-C[C6]-R[1.0]-T[119] Decommissioning of coal/lignite-fired power production capacity

Related Measure: RO-C[C6]-R[1.0] Electricity market reform, replacement of coal in the energy mix and support for a legislative and regulatory framework for private investment in renewable electricity production

Quantitative Indicator: Megawatt (MW)

Baseline: 2 025

Target: 3 070

Time: Q4 2025

1. Context:

Target 119 is part of Reform 1, which aims at decarbonising the energy sector, with a focus on power generation. The reform consists in legislative and regulatory acts phasing out coal and enabling increase of renewable electricity generation capacity.

Target 119 is the fourth step of the reform, and it follows the completion of target 113, milestone 114, target 115, which were fulfilled under previous payment requests. It will be followed by target 119a on the decommissioning of additional capacity of coal/lignite-fired power.

2. Evidence provided:

                        Name of the evidence                             Short description

1     Cover note                                             Summary document duly justifying
                                                             how the target (including all the
                                                             constitutive elements) has been
                                                             satisfactorily fulfilled.
2     Decision No. 2611 of 11 December 2025 issued by the 50 MW of coal-fired power unit at CET
      National Energy Regulator (ANRE) amending License Iași II Holboca has been removed from
      No. 2277 for the commercial operation of electricity the licence.
      and thermal energy production capacities in
      cogeneration power plants, granted to the
      Municipality of Iași.
3     Certification issued by the Transmission System 50 MW of coal-fired power unit at CET
      Operator (TSO) in Letter No. 23872 of 16 December Iasi II Holboca have been disconnected

      2025 permanently withdrawing and decommissioning from the electricity network and
      from the National Transmission System (NTS) of CET removed           from        the electricity
      Iași II Holboca.                                       balancing market.
4     Decision No. 2425 of 18 November 2025 issued by 645 MW of lignite fired power units at
      ANRE amending License No. 1085 for the commercial Turceni Unit 7 (330 MW) and the
      operation of electricity and thermal energy production Ișalnița Unit 7 (315 MW) have been
      capacities in cogeneration power plants granted to removed from the licence.
      Complexul Energetic Oltenia S.A.
      Date of entry into force: 22 November 2025.

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