All the legal acts that govern energy communities - Romanian and EU - in one place. Direct links to the official sources. Updated on 13 September 2026.
Acts in force, newest first. Today's reference point is no longer Government Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 163/2022 but OUG 59/2025, which gave energy communities their own legal status, together with ANRE (Romania's energy regulator) orders 9/2026 and 50/2026, which made them work in practice.
Approves the procedure by which a community that has already been legally set up enrols in the national register. Published in Monitorul Oficial (Romania's Official Gazette) no. 535 of 30 June 2026. Until it is registered here, a community does not exist for the energy market. The register is public and is run by ANRE.
The text of the order (ANRE PDF) →The rules by which a community sells its surplus on the wholesale market and buys energy for its members, directly or through an intermediary. It also covers the conditions under which the community's batteries can provide services to grid operators. Monitorul Oficial no. 384 of 7 May 2026.
The text of the order (ANRE PDF) →Amends Law 123/2012. Quantity-based netting becomes monthly, the threshold up to which netting can be requested rises to 400 kW, and the exemption from paying imbalance costs goes up to 900 kW. Monitorul Oficial no. 603 of 23 July 2026, in force since 26 July. How this shows up on the bill depends on the methodology in ANRE Order 15/2022, which ANRE has to update by 24 September 2026.
Law 123/2012, consolidated version →Transposes RED III and amends OUG 163/2022. This is where energy communities gain their own legal status, access to the market and to support schemes, and it is also where the national register kept by ANRE is born. The act on which the rest of today's framework rests.
Read the full text →Completes the framework for promoting renewable energy and transposes RED II. The first act to bring the concepts of prosumer and renewable energy community into Romanian law. Substantially amended by OUG 59/2025 - read it together with that ordinance, not on its own.
Read the full text →The general framework of the energy sector. All later amendments - OUG 163/2022, OUG 59/2025, Law 160/2026 and the secondary acts - operate on this text. Always read the consolidated version, not the one published in 2012.
Consolidated version →Governs cooperatives - one of the three legal forms recommended by STUP Standard for energy communities, alongside the association and the homeowners' association.
See the law →The framework for NGOs and associations. One of the possible legal forms for small renewable energy communities (self-consumption, no sale of surplus).
See the ordinance →The European directives that Romania has transposed. Important: when Brussels makes changes, Romania has a deadline to align. RED III was transposed in November 2025, through OUG 59/2025.
Amends Directive 2018/2001 (RED II) and Regulation 2018/1999. Raises the EU renewables target to 42.5% by 2030. Transposed in Romania through OUG 59/2025.
EUR-Lex →The framework of the internal electricity market. Introduces the concept of the Citizen Energy Community (CEC), broader than the REC.
EUR-Lex →The promotion of energy from renewable sources. Introduces the concept of the Renewable Energy Community (REC). First transposed in Romania through OUG 163/2022.
EUR-Lex →The governance framework for the 2030 targets. Requires member states to report progress every year (PNIESC, Romania's National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan).
EUR-Lex →Published by the European Commission on 10 March 2026, with the recommendations following on 30 April. Note: it is a non-legislative package - recommendations and communications, not directives. For communities, what matters is Recommendation C/2026/2850 on energy communities and self-consumption, together with the annexed action plan (enabling frameworks, access to finance, social inclusion, digital innovation). It creates no direct obligations for you, but it shows where the money and the rules are heading.
DG ENER →The Smart City Romania network, run by ARSC
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