Abstract
Romania has implemented the most generous program of renewable energy development from the entire European Union. This
work studies the implications of the accelerated development of renewable energy and especially wind energy. Because of the
instability of this energy, the need to resort to more than what was recommended for the classic energy was inevitable. That is
why the favorable impact on the environment was below expectations. Also, important unfavorable economic effects have
emerged, effects materialized in the increase of costs for all the consumers of electric energy and in the emergence of some
significant competitiveness loss for the economic environment. The new renewable energy production technologies have brought
great and rapid earnings only for the ones that have invested in this domain in Romania. The excessive support of the renewable
energy in Romania was generated by the political decisions that weren’t very rigorously substantiated from an economical point
of view.