Next to the substation.
- Distance to 400 kV node
- Direct adjacency ✓
- Capacity installed
- 650 MVA (400 MVA + 250 MVA)
- Voltage levels
- 400 / 220 / 110 kV
- Operator
- Transelectrica S.A.
- Upgrade
- 2024–2025 · Siemens Energy + Electrogrup + Retrasib ✓
Home/The Site
Calea Caransebeșului Km 7.5 · Reșița
One site. Documented.
Adjacent to the grid.
~3 hectares identified as the project footprint within a ~31-hectare municipal private-domain perimeter. Industrial zoning confirmed. Adjacent 650 MVA Transelectrica substation.
Illustrative · Not the Reșița facility
Calea Caransebeșului Km 7.5
The identified perimeter.
Reșița · Caraș-Severin · Western Romania · EU
Project footprint
~3 hectares
Total perimeter
~31 hectares
Ownership
Municipal private domain
Zoning
Industrial — confirmed
HV adjacency
400/220/110 kV · 650 MVA
Encumbrances
None (NU SUNT)
PUZ status
Under elaboration
Allocation
Public tender · sale or concession
"The stage is set now in Europe for developers with local knowledge to find and prepare land for data center usage."
Hines · Powered Land Report 2025 ↗
"Future capacity growth will be constrained primarily by grid readiness rather than access to capital."
EUDCA · 2026 State of European Data Centers ↗
"Vacancy in European data centers is forecast to reach an all-time low of 6.5% by end 2026."
CBRE · European Data Centre Outlook 2026 ↗
Grid adjacency
Why this perimeter, not another.
PPC chose the same zone.
- Investor
- PPC Romania (Greece's largest energy company) ✓
- Transaction
- 9.9 ha adjacent · December 2025
- Purpose
- 100 MW gas-fired plant
- Signal
- Independent institutional validation
Municipal private domain.
- Owner
- Municipality of Reșița
- Domain
- Private domain (domeniu privat) ✓
- Perimeter
- ~31 hectares contiguous
- Encumbrances
- None (NU SUNT) ✓
- Rezoning required
- None — already industrial ✓
Access & logistics
Getting people, power and fibre to site.
Road
Calea Caransebeșului · DN58
Site on DN58 national road. Km 7.5 from central Reșița. Access to A1 motorway via Caransebeș.
Rail
Reșița freight network
Established freight rail with spurs into the Km 7.5 industrial zone.
Utilities
Gas, water, fibre
Mayor's Office committed to issuing support letters to Transelectrica, gas operator, Aquacaraș and fibre operators under the Partnership Agreement.
Airport
Timișoara · 1h 20m
Timișoara International Airport (TSR) approximately 90 minutes by road.