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The energy crisis triggered globally in the last quarter of 2021, forced Romania to go through a winter with liberalized electricity and gas prices, a period unprecedented in terms of consumer prices, accentuated by the result of closing energy targets that coalfired operations as a result of the imposition of EU conditions for the restructuring of the mining and energy sector. The year before, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, with restrictions imposed, produced a decrease in electricity demand, a decline in coal-fire...

The Valea Jiului coal basin is the largest mining basin in Romania and includes from east to west the mining fields: Lonea, Lonea-Pilier, Petrila-Sud, Petrila, Livezeni, Salatruc, Dalja, Iscroni, Aninoasa, Vulcan, Paroseni, Lupeni , Lupeni-Sud, Barbateni, Uricani, Valea de Brazi and Campu lui Neag. The first opening works in the Lonea perimeter began with the excavation of the Rascoala gallery, in 1870, a gallery supported by brickwork. Also in the same period, the up-to-date exploitation of the outcrops from the ...