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CEZ will remain active in Romania, after the takeover by Australian group MIRA
Mihai Gongoroi (TRANSLATED BY COSMIN GHIDOVEANU)
• (Interview with Ondrej Safar, CEO of CEZ Romania)
• The auction price for CEZ assets was the main selection criterion and MIRA offered the highest one
• We are in line with the estimated asset transfer schedule
The CEZ Group will remain active in our country after the transfer of assets to the Australian group Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), focusing on energy trading and energy services, Ondrej Safar, CEO of CEZ Romania, said in an interview.
He told us that the transfer of assets is in line with the estimated schedule. The documentation for approval was submitted in November 2020, and in the first days of this year the company received the favorable opinion of the European General Directorate for Competition. The transaction must also be approved in the Supreme National Defense Council (CSAT). Safar also said that t
âWe are expecting the world after the pandemic to become more digitalized. Sector wide, it is visible that a bigger push for digitization and implementation of collected data is needed. We need to have an ever more insightful knowledge of our clients in order to predict potential impacts more accurately and earlier. Most likely, the buzz words for the energy generation market will be flexibility and liquidity in order to be able to react faster to the changes in the consumption,â
Ondrej Safar, Country Manager for Romania, CEZ Group, told The Diplomat-Bucharest.
âThe current pandemic context was definitely a hard dry-run for our digitization strategy, but it also proved once more that we are on the right path. One of the key pillars that kept us functioning under the strictest prevention conditions was the extended remote dispatching of the network, allowing us to work in turns with the dispatchers, and thus provide them with the highest prevention possible against c