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TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

 Fossil fuels Nuclear  Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
renewable
Total amount in specific units*
Total amount in exajoules (EJ)

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS

2000 2010 2015 2017* Compound annual growth rate (%)
2000 to 2017*
Energy consumption [EJ]**      
- Total 1.523 1.458 1.333 1.398  (0.005
- Solids*** 0.313 0.289 0.245 0.246 (0.014
- Liquids 0.411 0.352 0.360 0.399 (0.002
- Gases 0.573 0.456 0.377 0.407 (0.020
- Nuclear 0.056 0.119 0.119 0.119 0.046
- Hydro + wind + photovoltaic 0.051 0.066 0.070 0.076 0.024
- Other/Renewables 0.120 0.175 0.175 0.172 0.022
Energy production [EJ]        
- Total 1.177 1.148 1.105 1.064 (0.006
- Solids*** 0.235 0.247 0.197 0.187 (0.013
- Liquids 0.258 0.175 0.164 0.149 (0.032
- Gases 0.459 0.364 0.372 0.360 (0.014
- Nuclear 0.056 0.119 0.119 0.119 0.045
- Hydro + wind + photovoltaic 0.053 0.074 0.094 0.087 0.029
- Other/Renewables 0.116 0.168 0.159 0.163 0.020

TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

2000 2010 2015 2017* Compound annual growth rate (%)
2000 to 2017
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe) G/N        
- Thermal N 15 12 10.9 10.8 (0.0191
- Nuclear N 0.7 1.4 1.4 1.4 0.0416
- Hydro N 6 6 6 7 0.0091
- Wind N 0.4 4.5 4.4
- Geothermal N        
- Other/Renewables N        
- Total N 21.7 19.8 23.8 23.6 0.0049
Electricity production (TWh) G/N        
- Thermal G 32 29 28.7 28.6 (0.0066
- Nuclear G 5 12 11.7 11.5 0.0502
- Hydro G 15 20 17 14.9 (0.0004
- Wind G 0.3 9 9.3 0.2238
- Geothermal G
- Other renewable G
- Total** G 52 61.3 66.3 0.0126
Total electricity consumption (TWh) 43 52 52 54 0.0135

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

2000 2010 2015 2017*
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) 1917 2581 2624 2756
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 16 19 19 22
Nuclear/total electricity (%) 10 19 18 18

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2018

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]
Status Operator Reactor
Supplier
Construction
Date
First
Criticality
Date
First Grid
Date
Commercial
Date
Shutdown
Date
UCF
for
2018
CERNAVODA-1 PHWR 650 Operational SNN AECL 1982-07-01 1996-04-16 1996-07-11 1996-12-02 89.0
CERNAVODA-2 PHWR 650 Operational SNN AECL 1983-07-01 2007-05-06 2007-08-07 2007-11-01 98.2
CERNAVODA-3 PHWR 655 Suspended Constr. SNN AECL 1984-02-09
CERNAVODA-4 PHWR 655 Suspended Constr. SNN AECL 1985-08-15
CERNAVODA-5 PHWR 655 Cancelled Constr. SNN AECL 1987-05-12 2014-03-11
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.

TABLE 6. STATUS OF DECOMMISSIONING PROCESS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit Shutdown reason Decommission strategy Current decommissioning phase Current fuel management phase Decommissioning licensee Licence terminated year
n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.
n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.

TABLE 7. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit/Project name Owner Type Capacity in MW(e) Expected construction start year Expected commercial year
Cernavoda 3 IPP CANDU 6 720 2022 2030
Cernavoda 4 IPP CANDU 6 720 2022 2032