Transparency, spatial planning and getting approval of the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are the main barriers to the development of wind energy in Romania, industry and government representatives were told today at a workshop in Bucharest organised by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the Romanian Wind Energy Association (AREE). Despite this, projects worth 3,000 MW are due to come online in the next three years, and Romania has relatively short lead times and costs in terms of administrative procedures and connection to the grids. "Although lead times and costs are better in Romania than in many other EU countries, there are very few wind farms online, so we cannot say if the positive trend will continue," said Dorina Iuga, EWEA's Projects Manager. The findings come from the EU funded project Wind Barriers, which makes recommendations for speeding up the development of wind energy in Romania. These include improving the level of transparency in the decision making process for grid connections, creating spatial planning procedures for areas appropriate for wind farms in order to attract developers, and speeding up the approval of EIAs. Romania  investment  transparency  wind energy 
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