The Romanian Ministry of Energy has announced that the state-owned energy company Societatea de Administrare Participațiilor în Energie (SAPE) is currently conducting a feasibility study to resume the development of the up to 1 GW Tarniţa Lăpuşteşti pumped-storage hydropower project, located on the Someșul Cald River in Cluj County (northern Romania).
The storage project will be the country's first pumped-storage hydropower station, with a capacity ranging between 500 MW and 1 GW. It will use water from Lake Tarniţa and Lake Lăpusteşti and will feature turbines with a capacity of 250 MW each.
Development of the project originally began in 1989, but the project has since gone through a series of delays and been abandoned. The announcement of a new feasibility study thus effectively resumes work on the project.
As of end-2022, hydropower represented 36% of Romania’s installed capacity with 6.65 GW and 26% of its power generation with 15 TWh (-18% in 2022).
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