Financial investors for Electrica

The Romanian State will facilitate the access of financial investors to the privatisation of the Electrica branches in order to avoid the lack of competition between investors that occurred in the case of Electrica Banat and Electrica Dobrogea, sources involved in the Electrica privatisation told Ziarul Financiar.”The privatisation of the other Electrica branches will be very different, structurally, from what happened in the case of the electricity distributors whose privatisation was negotiated with Enel. That is precisely why we want the financial investors to be able to hold strong positions within a consortium, namely to be the main players in a consortium that needs to include a strategic investor, as well. Previously, the consortium could only be led by a strategic investor, while the financial investor had to settle for a minority position,” the quoted sources said. ZF