History of the department

1948 — Chairs, as the basic collective units of higher education with training, educational, methodological and research duties, were established under the Education Reform Act, which structured the entire education system in Romania.

1949 — The Chair of Power Plants and Electrical Networks is officially established, the core from which today's department would evolve.

1966 — The growing number of students, teaching staff and courses leads to the chair being divided into three separate units: power plants, electrical networks and automation.

After the move to the new campus of the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, the power plants chair benefits from modern laboratories, including a power plant laboratory.

March 1985 — The power plants and electrical networks chairs merge again into a single unit.

1990 — The merged chair splits into the Chair of Electrical Networks and Chair of Power Plants and Industrial Energy.

2005 — The chair is renamed the Chair of Energy Generation and Use, reflecting the broadening of its field of activity.

2011 — Under National Education Act no. 1/2011, the term chair is replaced by department. The unit becomes the Department of Energy Generation and Use, within the Faculty of Energy Engineering.