Power utility PPC and the Copelouzos group have agreed to dissolve a joint venture, PPC Solar Solutions, formed eight years ago for development of retail outlets around Greece for electricity sales, energy services and domestic solar panel installations, but never able to get off the ground.

Fierce and adamant opposition by PPC union groups against the joint venture, formed in January, 2012 as an innovative move – for its time – stifled the business plan.

The Copelouzos group’s Damco held a 51 percent stake in this joint venture, PPC holding the other 49 percent.

In 2017, the power utility’s then-CEO, Manolis Panagiotakis made an effort to revive the idle business plan, but his initiative also sparked a heated response and resistance from PPC unions.