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Increases of even 147% in the electricity of medium processing companies. Anxiety about BSE and energy efficiency. What industry representatives said at a SW party. “We can not take other measures,” replied PEN Minister Costas Skrekas.
Numbers are never wrong. And for the first time in Greece they show that Renewable Energy Sources (RES) were during the first quarter of 2021 the first source of energy, surpassing fossil fuels and lignite. In particular, green energy from wind and photovoltaic parks, together with the hydroelectric power, managed to dominate the country’s electricity generation mix to the tune of 49.13%. There were some small indications already from the previous year, when on June 8, 2020 not a single kilowatt hour was produced by burning lignite, after 70 years of “coal” domination in the Greek elect...
The political leadership of the Ministry of Environment and Energy is working on a plan for the extension of the responsibilities of the Energy Regulatory Authority (ERA) to waste management. Minister Costas Skrekas has accepted suggestions and proposals for taking a legislative initiative so that the Authority can follow similar examples of other European and International Regulators. The issue was also raised by the president of ERA Athanasios Dagoumas during the press conference applauding the moves of the Energy Minister. As he said, there are similar examples of the Italian Regulatory Au...