Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 15 Romania power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 8.6 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, Rovinari power station (coal), accounts for about 33% of that 15-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — CE Oltenia Complexul Energetic, Termo Ploiesti SRL [100%], Electrocentrale Bucureşti SA [100%] — control roughly 63% of that 15-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a temperate Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turceni power station | Coal | 1,650 |
| 2 | NPP Cernavoda | Nuclear | 1,411 |
| 3 | Doicesti power station | Coal | 1,400 |
| 4 | HPP Portile de Fier I | Hydro | 1,161 |
| 5 | Mintia-Deva power station | Coal | 1,075 |
| 6 | Rovinari power station | Coal | 990 |
| 7 | TPP CCCC Petrom Brazi | Gas | 920 |
| 8 | Braila power station | Coal | 800 |
| 9 | Galati Power Station | Coal | 800 |
| 10 | TPP Iernut | Gas | 751 |
| 11 | Isalnita power station | Coal | 630 |
| 12 | HPP Lotru | Hydro | 509 |
| 13 | Hefaistos power station | Gas | 500 |
| 14 | Doicești nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 462 |
| 15 | Bucharest-Vest power station | Gas | 436 |
| 16 | TPP Braila | Gas | 413 |
| 17 | Bucharest North East power station | Coal | 400 |
| 18 | TPP Galati | Gas | 375 |
| 19 | HPP Raul Mare | Hydro | 335 |
| 20 | TPP Drobeta | Coal | 313 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — Romania. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/romania/
There are 97 power plants in Romania in this open dataset, with about 21,990 MW of total capacity.
Turceni power station is the largest at about 1,650 MW (coal).
The most common plant type in this dataset is solar (36 plants), across 6 fuel types in total.
Romania's grid carbon intensity is about 251 gCO₂/kWh, with 67.5% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).