Grid priority for units functioning purely as energy storage stations

Revisions enabling grid connection priority only for facilities functioning purely as energy storage stations dominated the legislative revisions presented by energy minister Kostas Skrekas at a cabinet meeting yesterday.

The minister left aside matters concerning RES licensing simplification, pumped storage stations and other energy-storage forms.

RES units combining energy storage facilities will be regarded as RES units and not be given grid connection priority, according to the draft bill.