The National Offshore Wind Farm Development Plan appears most likely to proceed without significant changes in terms of locations that will host offshore wind farms, but the sizes of proposed marine areas could be revised.

Ten areas proposed in an initial plan are unlikely to be changed, though some revisions could be made to the layouts of offshore wind farms, including smaller plot sizes, especially in Crete, where reaction against the initial plan has been particularly strong.

The energy ministry’s leadership has scheduled a meeting tomorrow with top officials from EDEYEP, the Hellenic Hydrocarbons and Energy Resources Management Company, to work on finalizing the National Offshore Wind Farm Development Plan.

The two sides will also strive to adopt a finalized text for the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment’s terms to be applied in the emerging offshore wind farm sector. A series of comments forwarded during public consultation on this text will be taken into account.

Officials will strive to have finalized the sector’s Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment details before the end of February, though its finalization within March is considered likeliest.