Officials at RAAEY, the Regulatory Authority for Waste, Energy and Water, and power grid operator IPTO are examining adjustments and changes needed to the existing legal framework so that direct-line operations can be incorporated into the country’s grid.

Direct lines are electricity lines that connect individual power plants with individual customers, or electricity lines that connect individual power producers with individual power suppliers directly supplying their own facilities, subsidiaries or selected customers.

At present, direct lines are not incorporated into transmission systems or distribution networks.

Direct lines, according to experts in this domain, can contribute to the decongestion of the grid and, to a certain extent, be part of the solution to the problem of RES grid-injection cuts as they bypass already saturated electricity networks either for transmission or distribution purposes.