Delgaz Grid announced total investments of 365 million RON in 2024. The investment budget targets modernization works, network expansion works, but also for the establishment of new distributions in eight towns in Romania.
“We are investing over 70 million RON to modernize the gas network in the counties of Alba, Hunedoara, Caraș-Severin, Iași and Bacău, because we want to offer better and safer services to consumers connected to our distribution network. In Alba we have 17 investment projects and we are replacing gas pipelines in eight localities, we will modernize the network for approx. 46 km, in Iasi on 39 km, in Caraș-Severin and Hunedoara we work in ten localities, and in Bacău we have 13 investment projects and we work in five localities in the county,” Delgaz Grid representatives announced.
In 2023, Delgaz Grid invested over 35 million RON for the purchase and installation of over 200,000 natural gas meters, representing 10 percent of the approximately 2 million meters in the gas installations of the company’s consumers.
About 150,000 meters were installed at customers’ gas installations where the meters were metrologically overdue, and 50,000 were installed at new customers. At the same time, last year another 100,000 metrologically recertified meters were installed in laboratories authorized and supervised by the Romanian Bureau of Legal Metrology.
Delgaz Grid, a member company of the E.ON Romania group, recently presented the final conclusions of the “20HyGrid” pilot project to the representatives of the Ministry of Energy and ANRE
The main conclusion of the project, carried out for the first time in Romania, is that the use of the mixture of natural gas (80%) and hydrogen (20%) in the existing distribution networks, installations and devices of use at customers, without the need for any modification of them, is possible from a technical point of view and without risks additional compared to the use of natural gas.
The main components of the existing natural gas distribution network are already ready for hydrogen. At pressures below 16 bar there are no fundamental limitations for hydrogen supply in terms of tightness, materials, and functionality of network elements.