We invite you to read below the interview given by Ziarul Financiar by Corneliu Bodea, CEO of Adrem and president of CRE.
 
If Romania wants to capture as much of the funds for the energy transition as possible, this is only possible through concrete projects. Unfortunately, the lack of investment in recent decades translates into a lack of training of the people who should do exactly these projects.
 
“I am just concerned about the energy transition. I think that Romania has the chance to skip some stages, but unfortunately I think that we will have problems in securing the financing “, says the entrepreneur whose group now has 1,500 people and a turnover of about 45 million euros.
 
Once upon a time …
 
For Romania, the energy transition to the green energy side will be one of the biggest economic challenges. With a tradition of oil and gas production of over 100 years and 20% of energy supplied from coal, the energy transition for Romania is equivalent to a rethinking of the entire economy. Unfortunately, says Bodea, the people who should put these directions into practice are missing.
 
“Our tradition in the oil and gas energy area does not matter unless it has continuity. Or if you haven’t done anything for 20 years, you have a lack of investment and seriousness, then the tradition doesn’t matter anymore because you don’t have people to think about this energy transition. The money in the Green Deal only comes if you have projects. It’s not about us not having ideas, we have, but we don’t know how to do projects anymore. If we imagine that someone will come and pour money into our bag, we are wrong. And projects mean feasibility studies, technical notebooks.”
 
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