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Romania was electrifed almsot completly only in 1960. Throu all the communist sayed they electrified the whole country some villages are still not electrified.
There was the General Electrification Plan, going from 1951 to 1960.
In 1937 2,2% of the villages and 6,2% proecent of the village inhabatoures had electricity, and in 1941 (I don't know if Northen Transylvania - which was ocupyed by Hungray from 1940 to 1944/1945 was included in the statistics) 3,3% of the villages and 8,2% of the village inhabatoures had electricity.
Not even in big cityes all people had electricity. Some people where too poor to have electricity installed. In Bucharest, in 1940 you could still see a lot of people poorly dressed or with no shoes in theyr feet... and it was the capital of the country. The ares with most electrified villages where around Bucharest, and in Prahova, Braşov (Brashov) and Sibiu countyes. In Olt county wasn't a single village electrified up untill the '50's. This situation was generaten by the fact that in pre-communist Romania only about 20% of the population lived in cityes and the fact that the Romanian peasents are too individualists and rather then unitying theyr powers they preffer to own small portions of land (throu all they can be very poor).
B.t.w., in some areas of Bucharest the electricity network is the same as in the '60's and '70's, throu all electricity consumption had grown.