RAAEY, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Environment, and Water, has urged distribution network operator DEDDIE/HEDNO to prepare essential network development initiatives required to facilitate the progression of interconnections concerning Dodecanese island Astypalea, as well as islands situated in the Aegean Sea’s northwest and south.

The request accompanied RAAEY’s approval of the operator’s development program covering 2022 to 2026, which did not include these needed projects.

The authority has requested an update from DEDDIE/HEDNO on the necessary network development projects that have not been included in the operator’s network development plan but are related to the interconnections within a month of the approval’s publication in the government gazette.

The operator will need to incorporate these necessary network development projects into the next revision of its development plan.