Featured in Building resilience – 04-2026

Romanian momentum

Romania was one of the few standout European PV markets in 2025, recording growth amid an EU-wide decline that affected even the region’s biggest markets like Italy and the Netherlands. Irene Mihai, policy analyst at the Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association (RPIA), gives the lowdown on the country’s solar and storage outlook to 2030.

By

Blathnaid O’Dea

02 Apr 2026

Chart showing a map of Romania and installed pv capacity across different regions.

Image: pv magazine/Harald Schütt

In 2025, the EU solar market contracted for the first time in a decade. “Times for solar in the EU have changed – and unfortunately not for the better,” said SolarPower Europe in its EU Solar Market Outlook 2025-2030, published in December 2025. With 65.1 GW installed, the association noted that EU solar deployment fell by …

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