An energy ministry draft bill just forwarded for consultation includes a wide range of interventions addressing water management; forest management and protection; urban resilience and policy; unauthorized construction; and energy security.
Initiatives included in the bill, forwarded as a package addressing the wider impact of climate change in the aforementioned areas, include Apollo, a support package reducing energy cost for low-income households, as well as public buildings and installations.
The initiatives also include tough measures aimed to combat rising electricity theft, including loss of professional licenses for electricians found to be complicit.
RES projects participating in auctions for feed-in tariffs will face greater grid-injection restrictions and will be required to incorporate energy storage systems.
Also, small-scale PVs will need to go to auction for their feed-in tariffs as of May 1, 2024. Until now, this group of PVs has been entitled to administratively set tariffs.
Furthermore, under the new proposals, EDEYEP, the Hellenic Hydrocarbons and Energy Resources Management Company, will be able to participate in SPVs for wind studies at offshore areas marked out for a first wave of offshore wind farms.