📋 Tender Overview
More than 1,400 technical approvals for connection (ATR) currently belong to a number of more than 1,000 holders - private and state-owned companies, municipalities, public administrations and other entities - who collectively own at least 1 MW.
These valid technical approvals for connection correspond to energy projects with a total planned capacity of more than 80,000 MW - almost ten times the current power required - a disproportion accentuated by the fact that a significant part of the reserved capacities is not actually progressing towards implementation.
The information results from the radiography made on the basis of the data provided by the National Electric Power Transmission Company Transelectrica SA, which also consolidated the information sent by the other distribution operators.
The publication of this list aims to ensure a higher level of transparency regarding network capacity reservations, in the context of the reform of the framework for issuing ATRs.
The list of more than 1400 ATRs is a selection, not an exhaustive list, as it includes entities that cumulatively hold at least 1 MW (an entity can appear with one or more ATRs; the threshold is applied at the holder level, not per opinion).
Also, this list reflects a current situation, which is subject to change, and includes projects at all procedural stages - from recently issued approvals, to signed connection contracts, works in progress and recent commissioning.
Both actual operational capabilities, ongoing projects and ATRs still in the early stages of development are included.
The list of technical approvals for connection, the date of issue, the name of the holder, the procedural stage and other information about the holders can be found in the attached table.
In parallel, a query was carried out at the National Office of the Trade Register for a random sample of 722 companies from the list 72 000 MW of approved capacity.
The resulting data show that most of these companies, namely 437, were established in the period 2020-2023, 105 companies in the period 2010-2019, 100 before 2010 and 59 after 2024.
From the perspective of turnover analysis, at the level of 2024, 76% of these companies had zero turnover, and only 37 had turnover of over 100 million lei.
Also, 78% of the firms that resulted from the ONRC query had no employees in 2024, and only 15 firms had more than 250 employees.
Analyzed from the point of view of the share capital, more than half of the companies, respectively 387, had a share capital of less than 10,000 lei, of which 318 companies had a share capital of less than 1,000 lei. Only 14%, i.e. 101 companies, had share capital between 100,000 lei and 1 million lei.
