Forbes Romania invited some of the most important managers and entrepreneurs to answer a short questionnaire at a moment that is complex from all perspectives: economic, social, and geopolitical. Mesut Güler, CEO Enexus.
What word best characterizes the year 2025 for Enexus? Please explain.
For Enexus, the word of the year 2025 is Integrated. This word captures both the unique model we brought to market — where a single partner coordinates the entire investment chain, from market entry to execution, connection, operation and trading — and the extended ecosystem we are building around Enexus. Integrated today means at least these three elements for us: an investor-first business model, through which foreign capital enters Romania more easily and more securely; a platform for dialogue — the Türkiye–Romania Forum in Ankara launched in 2025, where we brought diplomacy, investors, and industry into a single coherent dialogue about energy; and the creation of two new strategic entities in the Enexus ecosystem: Verdeo, a company that offers energy trading solutions supported by advanced forecasts and analysis, and BESCA, the newest regional platform that brings Romania and Turkey together to collaborate closely in renewable energy, infrastructure, and clean technologies.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Romania’s business environment in the current social and economic context?
Romania is in a rare position in the European energy market, with a combination of resources, strategic positioning, and international interest that, if properly leveraged, can transform the country into a regional hub for green energy investments. The strengths of Romania’s business environment are its attractive mix of solar resources, a competitive cost of energy, and access to European funds, combined with international investors — especially from Turkey — who are seeking stable markets with strong growth potential and supported by specialists capable of delivering large projects to international standards.
Through the Türkiye–Romania Forum that we organized in Ankara in November, I wanted to contribute to consolidating these advantages, and I am pleased that we created real visibility for Romania as a destination for Turkish capital in renewable energy. It was a necessary platform for dialogue in which authorities, investors, and EPC companies discussed directly opportunities, barriers, and strategic partnerships. For many Turkish investors, this forum was the first concrete opportunity to evaluate Romania beyond the statistical data and to understand it as an accessible, prepared, and open market.
However, the weaknesses remain significant. Here I refer to fiscal unpredictability and sudden VAT changes, which put pressure on large projects; unequal access to the grid and permitting times that vary greatly regionally; or the absence of a coherent national strategy to present Romania consistently to international investors. Above all, there continues to be the challenge of a very cumbersome bureaucracy — a system that sometimes operates at odds with the pace of entrepreneurs oriented towards rapid solutions, clarity, and efficiency.
At the end of the year, what do you expect from Romanian authorities?
We want the state to be more business-focused, capable of capturing investments and not missing opportunities, whether we refer to more investors, more generation capacity, more connection-ready projects, or more MW in the market. The ability to capture and create value will be critical. Then, I would like to see a shift from an ultra-bureaucratic systemic mindset with too little business logic toward an entrepreneurial, agile mindset, including through a leaner, more efficient system. The state should function exactly like a private business and have an interface that helps any citizen or business easily understand how to solve their problems, which authorities to contact, with what resources, and in what timeframe. Dialogue with authorities is another necessary element.
