MonitorEnergie.ro – A public dashboard for Romania’s energy system

Project: monitor-energie.ro

A public dashboard for Romania's energy system.

A live control panel built in the public interest. One place to see how Romania produces, consumes, trades and prices electricity, updated every minute from public data.

1 min

Refresh rate of the national grid snapshot

2007

Minute-level archive of grid readings since

Day-ahead prices per day, at 15-minute intervals

European bidding zones compared live

OPEN THE DASHBOARD

Why we built it

A clear overview, made for everyone.

We want to offer an overall picture of Romania’s energy system that anyone can read: where the power comes from, where it goes and what it costs. It is not perfect. This is the first version, and we keep updating it.

Public interest

Free to use, with no accounts and no personal data collected. The charts can be embedded and reused with attribution.

First version

Not perfect, and continuously improving. New views, sources and corrections are added as we go.

Open to contributions

Anyone can contribute ideas or advice to improve it. We are open to feedback from specialists and the public alike.

Measured vs. estimated

Every chart separates what comes straight from the source from what we calculate. Estimates are labelled as such.

Data sources

Every number comes from a public source.

The site produces no data of its own. It collects the public snapshot of the National Energy System every minute, archives it, and places it next to weather and hydrology data to answer questions the raw figure cannot.

Measured · every minute

Transelectrica operational feed

Consumption, production, balance, breakdown by source and flows on every interconnection with Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Moldova and Ukraine.

Measured · 15 minutes

Transelectrica DAMAS reports

Imbalance prices, balancing energy, forecast vs. actual consumption and cross-border capacities, since June 2024.

Measured · daily

ENTSO-E Transparency Platform

Day-ahead prices for Romania and 27 European bidding zones. Also the backup for live data when the operator feed is down.

Measured · hourly

Open-Meteo & ERA5

Temperature weighted by population, solar radiation weighted by installed PV, and wind at 100 m over Dobrogea and southern Moldova.

Modelled · daily

GloFAS

River discharge on the Danube at the Iron Gates and on the inland rivers that feed Romania’s hydropower plants.

Forecast algorithm

A 7-day renewable forecast, learned from our own archive.

Transelectrica does not publish a forecast by source, so we build our own. It combines public weather forecasts for the places where the parks actually are with the relationship between weather and output learned from the archive. New parks show up in the data on their own.

Solar
Clear-sky ceiling

For every month–hour pair, the highest output in the archive sets the ceiling. Forecast cloud cover lowers it by up to 72% under full overcast.

Wind
National power curve

Average observed output for every 2 km/h step of wind speed, for the whole national fleet, including stopped turbines.

Hydro
Weekly rhythm

River flow caps hydro output rather than determining it. We use the recent average and the weekly pattern read from the archive.

Look-back
One year of history

The model learns the shape of the relationship from the past year, so each month is compared with the same month last year.

Correction
Last two weeks

Actual vs. predicted output over the last 14 days rescales the model, bounded between 0.6 and 1.8 so one odd week cannot skew it.

Limits
What to trust

A single day can be far off, especially toward the end of the range. The order of magnitude and the direction are what hold.

Our own calculations

Estimates, with the method written out.

Some figures exist in no public source, so we derive them and publish exactly how, so anyone can check or challenge them.

Estimate

Fuel burned and CO₂

Derived from energy produced, plant efficiency and fuel calorific value, with IPCC emission factors. Can be off by 20–30%.

Estimate

Industry vs. households

A decomposition of the consumption curve, comparing midweek and Sunday night floors. Shown as a range, not a single line.

Calculated

Capacity factor

Reference capacity comes from the highest peak in our own archive, so it refers to the same plants the operator feed measures.

Calculated

Interconnection load

Scheduled exchange divided by available capacity, per direction. A border counts as full above 90%.

Open to ideas

Help us make it better.

If you spot a figure that does not match an official source, have better data on Romania’s energy fleet, or an idea for a new view, write to us. The assumptions are adjustable and we correct them.

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