Abstract
The study aims to analyze the importance of renewable energy and to assess the progress made by Romania comparing to European Union and to targets set by Community institutions. We consider that both economic issues such as job creation or reduction of import dependency, but also ecological issues including reducing greenhouse gas emissions are important in discussions about renewable energy in rural areas in Romania. By using linear regression it has been identified a strong correlation in Romania, for period 2004–2014, between share of renewable resources in gross final energy consumption and import dependency. Taking into account that energetic independence is a problem of great importance for each country, the paper aims to identify unused renewable energy potential in rural areas and also opportunities for developing renewable energy sector based on the resources that can be exploited with high efficiency, action that will generate economic and social positive effects. Our results reveal that Romania has a high development potential of rural areas using renewable energy because Romania has a high volume of renewable resources (sun, wind, water). Under these circumstances it is necessary to adopt the policies in order to support projects referring to these types of energy.
Highlights
It has been paid a great attention to the environment protection and to the possibility that the orientation towards these issues would lead to job creation
The study aims to analyze the importance of renewable energy and to assess the progress made by Romania comparing to European Union and to targets set by Community institutions
This provides significant resources for rural economic development, but Romanian rural area, could not benefit from them because it was in a constant transformation after 1989, period marked by successive reversing of rural-urban migration processes (reflected in the fluctuating shares of rural population in total population according NIS (NIS 2016)
Summary
It has been paid a great attention to the environment protection and to the possibility that the orientation towards these issues would lead to job creation. As diversification of energy sources, reduces dependency on fossil fuels (which have the risk of generating shock waves especially the imported ones) and it contributes to increase energy security. The development of this field creates opportunities for new industries, both in the exploration productive area and in new technology production area, affecting job creation and economic growth. The specialized studies in renewable energy show increasing concerns in this area capturing the main approaches in sustainable and renewable energy systems problems (Mardani et al 2015)
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