The National Power Grid Company - Transelectrica (joint stock state-owned company) was founded further to the Romanian Government Ordinance No. 627/2000, by splitting off the former vertically integrated National Electricity Company into separate legal entities:

• SC TERMOELECTRICA SA for electricity and heat generation
• SC HIDROELECTRICA SA for electricity generation
• SC ELECTRICA SA for electricity distribution and supply
• CN TRANSELECTRICA SA for electricity transmission, power system operation and dispatching

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