A strategically important 400-kV western-corridor grid upgrade project reaching Megalopoli, central Peloponnese, to greatly increase electricity transmission to and from the Peloponnese, enable further development of RES facilities and gas-fueled power stations in the region and ensure voltage stabilization for the country’s southern grid, is now nearing completion following a delay of more than a year prompted by objections from a nearby monastery in Kalavryta, northern Peloponnese.

Contractor crews have now returned to work without resistance from nuns at the Kalavryta’s Agion Theodoron monastery, who previously objected, contending the construction activity, half a kilometer away, impacted the monastery’s tranquility.

Work on the project, budgeted at 110 million euros, had been brought to a standstill for nearly 14 months. The project contractor estimates construction of the project’s two remaining transmission towers will require between 60 to 80 days.

Overall, the project was blocked for a total of 12 years before work finally began in 2018 for completion in 2020.