08 July 2026 The return to service of Unit 1 at Romania's Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant has eased pressure on the country's short-term electricity market, reducing evening import needs and significantly lowering spot power prices after around 40 days of planned maintenance, Economedia.ro reported. The 700 MW reactor was reconnected to the national grid last weekend after a scheduled outage that had removed one of Romania's largest sources of baseload generation from the system. During the shutdown, Romania relied heavily on electricity imports during evening peak demand, when solar generation falls to zero, and household and industrial consumption remains high. Cross-border imports exceeded 3,000 MW at times, accounting for about 40% of domestic consumption. The resulting supply imbalance