Dobrogea has become the best-known region in Romania, with small, unknown towns featuring prominently on the front pages of the leading European newspapers. All thanks to wind power projects, says Adrian Băicuşi, general manager of Transelectrica.
"You can ask anyone in Europe where Bucharest or Braşov is, and may not get the right answer, but everybody knows where Dobrogea is located. Dobrogea is the magical word that stands for wind power," Băicuşi said.
Whereas up until now the biggest project announced in Romania was the one developed by Czech-based CEZ, which is set to build 240 wind power turbines with a capacity of 600 MW in two Dobrogea communes, Fântânele and Cogealac, Spanish-held Iberdrola now announces it could start works on a similar-size project also located in Dobrogea, as of 2011.
After a slower start than originally announced, Iberdrola, one of the world's leading players on the wind power market, says the investment in the 600-MW farm, close to the capacity of a Cernavodă reactor, will exceed one billion euros, considering that the cost of installing one MW of wind capacity is around 1.7 million euros, according to company estimates.
Dobrogea has become the best-known region in Romania, with small, unknown towns featuring prominently on the front pages of the leading European newspapers. All thanks to wind power projects, says Adrian Băicuşi, general manager of Transelectrica.
"You can ask anyone in Europe where Bucharest or Braşov is, and may not get the right answer, but everybody knows where Dobrogea is located. Dobrogea is the magical word that stands for wind power," Băicuşi said.
Whereas up until now the biggest project announced in Romania was the one developed by Czech-based CEZ, which is set to build 240 wind power turbines with a capacity of 600 MW in two Dobrogea communes, Fântânele and Cogealac,
