Greece’s new National Energy and Climate Plan, passed on by the caretaker government’s energy minister Pantelis Kapros to the re-elected conservative New Democracy party’s new energy minister Theodoros Skylakakis, includes mild adjustments aligning the plan to EU targets but no major changes, energypress sources have informed.

“Together, with Mrs. [Alexandra] Sdoukou, [the ministry’s secretary general, in the previous and new energy ministry] and the other officials, we assembled a team and drafted a pending NECP plan. The work, of course, had been done during the ministerial term of Konstantinos Skrekas. An initial text was authored, as the deadline is on June 30,” Kapros noted.

Minor revisions to a draft originally announced in January have been made, without any change of direction, including for the role of natural gas in the energy mix, or distribution of RES technologies, the sources noted.

The amendments were prompted by revised EU targets seeking greater RES penetration and energy savings, the sources added.

The EU energy-mix target for the RES sector has been raised to 42.5 percent from 40 percent, still lower than a 45 percent target ratified by European Parliament.

The European Commission, driven by Russia’s war on Ukraine, had proposed a European energy savings target of 14 percent, up from 9 percent, before European Parliament ratified a target of 13 percent and an agreement for 11.7 percent was finally set.

It remains unclear if Skylakakis, Greece’s newly appointed energy minister, will move swiftly to forward the revised NECP draft to Brussels by the June 30 deadline or opt to hold on to it for a few more days.