Carastelec is a Romanian electric power distribution company (societate pe acţiuni) that operates the electricity distribution network in Caraș‑Severin County, in the western part of Romania. The company is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and development of the medium‑voltage and low‑voltage networks, and for supplying electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and public‑service customers within its service area.
Carastelec was established during the reorganisation of the Romanian electricity sector in the early 2000s, when the formerly vertically integrated state monopoly was unbundled in accordance with European Union directives. The company is regulated by the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (Autoritatea Naţională de Reglementare în Energie – ANRE), which sets tariffs, quality standards, and licensing conditions for distribution operators.
The company's registered office is located in Reșița, the capital of Caraș‑Severin County. Its core activities include network planning, outage management, metering services, and the implementation of network‑modernisation projects, some of which are supported by national and European Union funding programmes.
As of the most recent publicly available data, Carastelec serves several hundred thousand electricity customers and manages a distribution network comprising tens of thousands of kilometres of cables. Further details regarding its ownership structure, financial performance, and specific operational statistics are not widely reported in publicly accessible encyclopedic sources.
