Power grid operator IPTO has revised its time frames for the completion of a series of international grid interconnections, as well that of a project to connect Crete and Athens, in a draft of its new ten-year development plan covering 2025 to 2034, forwarded for public consultation yesterday.

Revisions included in the plan’s draft include the addition of a further two years for the delivery of a second Greek-Turkish electrical grid interconnection, previously set for completion in 2029 but now pushed out to 2031.

The completion target for a second Greek-Albanian grid interconnection was changed to 2031 from 2030.

Delivery of an additional Greek-Italian grid interconnection has been set for 2031. IPTO’s previous development plan did not include a completion date for this project, which indicates significant progress was achieved during the intermediate period.

A project to interconnect the Greek, Cypriot and Israeli grids has been set a 2029 completion date for its Greece-Cyprus segment, an 898-km stretch, from 2027 in the previous plan. IPTO was placed at the helm of this project only last year.

All required studies have been completed for this project’s Greece-Cyprus segment with 657 million euros in support funds provided by the Connecting Europe Facility.

The completion date for an upgrade of the Greece-North Macedonia grid interconnection has remained unchanged at 2030.

The IPTO development plan’s international section also includes two new projects, a Greek-German grid link dubbed the Green Aegean Interconnector, and a Greek-Saudi Arabian grid link named the Saudi Greek Interconnector.