The Public Energy Corp. (PPC), Greece’s state-owned utility, has gained a young to construct a solar-plus-storage venture on the Greek island of Astypalaia.
PPC Renewables, the inexperienced vitality unit of PPC, has gained a young to construct a 3.5 MW photo voltaic venture and a 5 MW/10 MWh battery system in Astypalaia, Greece.
Astypalaia, an island within the Aegean Sea, has attracted consideration lately as a result of Volkswagen selected it as a take a look at for its sensible pilots. The German automaker and the Greek authorities launched a pilot venture in 2021 to supply sensible mobility providers equivalent to ride-sharing and car-sharing, based mostly on electrical automobiles. The sensible mobility pilot will run for at the very least six years.
Critics say the island, residence to about 1,500 everlasting residents, nonetheless will get most of its electrical energy from diesel turbines. Nevertheless, that is now set to alter.
PPC Renewables Chief Govt Konstantinos Mavros mentioned pv journal that building of the solar-plus-storage plant is predicted to start in about six months. The system shall be totally operational in about 20 months and can cowl half of Astypalaia’s electrical energy wants. The present diesel turbines will stay in place to energy the remainder of the island.
Mavros mentioned that PPC Renewables is dedicated to increasing the hybrid venture inside three to 4 years, to cowl greater than 80% of the island’s electrical energy wants. Nevertheless, Astypalaia isn’t the one Greek island that’s transitioning to a inexperienced and sustainable vitality future. pv journal not too long ago offered a listing of sensible initiatives at present working on the Greek islands of Naxos, Halki and Tilos, for instance.
In 2021, the Greek authorities launched the “Gr-Eco Islands Initiative,” which goals to deploy inexperienced tech within the Aegean Sea archipelago. The initiative features a broad map of meant sustainable actions and a €100 million ($99 million) funding pot, however the authorities has but to publish a coverage framework that really interprets this initiative right into a concrete set of insurance policies and plans.
The transition to renewable vitality, particularly within the small islands that aren’t related to the mainland grid of Greece, is a key precedence. However it isn’t just for the setting, as a result of the manufacturing of electrical energy by diesel turbines prices Greece thousands and thousands of euros yearly. All electrical energy customers in Greece pay for it by subsidies that may simply be phased out or primarily eradicated by renewable vitality programs.
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