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U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright held several bilateral meetings with the energy ministers of Romania and Bulgaria to strengthen cooperation on large-scale energy projects. Discussions focused on pumped-storage hydropower plants and nuclear power facilities.
Romania formalised the signing of a memorandum of understanding between state-owned Hidroelectrica and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a U.S. government-affiliated body, to develop pumped-storage plants in the Carpathian Mountains. According to Romanian Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies will be carried out with American support.
Another area of cooperation involves mapping and exploiting geothermal resources for district heating in Bucharest. Electrocentrale București (ELCEN) is working on this initiative with U.S.-based SAGE Geosystems, with partial funding from the European Union’s Modernisation Fund.
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