Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis and Deputy Environment and Energy Minister Alexandra Sdoukou signed on Friday a ministerial decision promoting self-consumption of energy, either individually by all citizens and businesses of the country or jointly (by apartment buildings).
The governments of Greece and Cyprus will meet on September 10 in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a multi-billion euro electric cable project, which if completed, would be the world’s longest linking Europe to the Middle East.
Chevron and its partners, Shell and NewMed Energy, have put forward a new $4 billion plan to develop the Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus.
The national offshore wind farm development program is in danger of sinking in the deep waters off Crete.
The Cypriot government is expected to approve Monday’s agreement of all parties involved in the planned power interconnection linking Greece with Cyprus at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
The subsidy on household electricity tariffs has been set at 1.4 cents per kilowatt-hour for September, Energy and Environment Minister Thodoros Skylakakis said in an interview with Mega TV on Tuesday.
The environmental organizations Arcturos, the Hellenic Ornithological Society, and Callisto are demanding that the wind farm construction in the Doukas area of the municipalities of Kastoria and Amyntaion in northern Greece be halted, as it violates a resolution by Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court.
Greece is launching an initiative to form a common front with the Balkan countries of the European Union on electricity rates.
The subsidy on household electricity tariffs was set at 1.4 cents per kilowatt-hour for September, Energy and Environment Minister Theodoros Skylakakis said on Tuesday.
Τhe parties involved in the electricity interconnection project between Crete and Cyprus reached an agreement in principle to end the impasse that has arisen on how to cover its funding gap, according to Cypriot media.
You’ve likely heard about the Aegean island of Astypalea and its electric cars, but what about Kythnos? Kythnos is also a “Smart Island,” if you weren’t aware.
This week will be crucial to whether the power grid link between Greece and Cyprus via Crete will be implemented.
It is highly likely that the government will need to continue subsidizing electricity bills in September as natural gas prices rose toward the end of August, Environment and Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis said in a radio interview.
The government may continue to pay subsidies on electricity bills in September, Environment and Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis has announced.
The Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) called on Thursday for the expedited completion of the planned Cyprus-Greece (Crete) electricity interconnection, the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), saying it represents “the great potential of the Eastern Mediterranean as a political, economic and energy region.”
In a letter to Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator, French cable company Nexans has threatened to stop laying the cable that will link Greece’s and Cyprus’ power grids on Monday, September 2, if some regulatory issues are not resolved by Friday.
