According to National Institute of Statistics, the primary energy resources have dwindled by 19.9% in the first half of 2009 in Romania as compared with the same interval a year before, with the electric power resources having reduced, in the same reference interval, by 11.6%. The main resources of primary energy totaled 16,503,800 tonnes of oil equivalent January through June in 2009, that is a drop by 4,105,300 tonnes.

According to the INS, the drop in the volume of primary energy resources was mainly caused by the fall in the imports, accounting for 80% of the drop figure.

In the first half of 2009, the resources of net coal from the domestic production represented 85.4% as compared with the same interval a year before, while the import coal accounted only for 29.3% of the coal from imports in the same interval.

The total resources of crude reached 88.4% of the available resources in the first six months of 2008, with the domestic production standing at 95.3% in the first half of 2009 against the same interval in 2008, while imports represented only 84.8% of the value in the first half of 2008.

The electric power resources stood at 29412.7 million kWh in H1 of 2009, down by 3860.8 million kWh as compared with the corresponding interval in 2008. The drop in the electric power resources was mainly caused by the 3885 million kWh drop in the production. The production of the thermal plants dwindled by 3137 million kWh.

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