PPC CEO and EIB President agree new financing essential to harness green power New investment by PPC distribution subsidiary HEDNO to upgrade 14,200 km of network New programme to deploy smart meters and improve power network efficiency New investment to upgrade thousands of kilometres of power distribution lines and increase use of smart meters essential […]
Greece to seek investors for 700 megawatt battery storage in autumn-minister
Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said that Greece will launch a tender for storage batteries in autumn, budgeted at 200 million euros. ATHENS: Greece plans to invite investors to build batteries for renewable energy power, with a total storage capacity of 700 megawatt, later this year, the energy minister said late on Tuesday. Speaking at a […]
Volkswagen’s Electric Cars To Help This Greece Island To Go Green
Volkswagen has lined up electric cars like ID.3 and ID.4, as well as the eScooter Seat MOID.4 became the first zero emission police car for the Greek island. Volkswagen and the Greek Government have started the transformation of Astypalea into a sustainable and smart island. On Wednesday, the first electric vehicles were delivered to the […]
Greece Plans Green-Energy Shift to Power Electric VW Fleet
Greece will set up renewable-energy infrastructure, including solar panels and batteries, on one of its small islands that will convert its entire vehicle fleet to electric models from Volkswagen AG. The government plans to install a 3 megawatt-hour solar park and 7 Mwh battery system on Astypalea by 2023 that will cover just over half […]
UAE’s Masdar Set to Make First Renewable Push Into Greece
Clean energy major announces plan to develop a 65MW solar project on site 65km north of Athens. Masdar, the Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy company, and Taaleri Energia have agreed to develop a 65-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) project in Greece. The project will be managed through the companies’ joint venture Masdar-Taaleri Generation (MTG), a statement […]
Masdar Makes First Investment in Greece by Developing Solar Plant With Taaleri Energia
An agreement was signed on 5/5/2021, in an online ceremony, between the Emirati-Finnish consortium MASDAR-Taaleri and a consortium of subsidiaries of the Greek business groups Konstantakopoulos (Kyoto) and Vasilakis (Autohellas) for the creation of a solar power plant power 65 MW, in the area of Asopia in Boeotia. This investment for creating a solar unit […]
UAE’s Masdar Enters Greece with 65 MW Solar Plant Amid Plans to Double Capacity
HIGHLIGHTS Masdar-Taaleri JV to develop plant north of Athens It is Masdar’s first project in Greece Masdar-Taaleri JV investing in Southeast, Central Europe Dubai : UAE clean energy firm Masdar, which aims to double its renewable installed capacity from 11 GW in two to three years, and Taaleri Energia, which invests in utility-scale wind and […]
Greece Goes Coal-free as Moto Installs EV Chargers: The Sustainability Success Stories of the Week
As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe. Published every week, this series charts how businesses and sustainability professionals are working to achieve their ‘Mission Possible’ across the campaign’s five key pillars – energy, resources, […]
Mytilineos heightens focus on solar in bid to reach 3GW of capacity by 2030
Mytilineos is looking to transfer its global experience of solar and storage project development to help decarbonise the Greek electrical system and hit 3GW of PV capacity by 2030. The industrial group earlier this month acquired 1.48GW of Greek solar parks as part of efforts to expand the company’s new renewables and storage development business […]
Greece’s PPC to spend 3.4 bln euro on power grid, renewables by 2023
ATHENS, Dec 2 : Greece’s biggest power utility Public Power Corp. (PPC) will spend 3.4 billion euros ($4.11 billion) to expand its footprint in renewables and modernise the country’s distribution grid, it said on Wednesday. The coal-reliant utility, which is 51% owned by the state, has pledged to shut down all but one of its […]