Manousakis (IPTO): Pan-European cooperation and institutional incentives for a timely and safe energy transition

The request for organization dialog betwixt governments, operators and regulators successful bid to outline the strategy regarding the adjacent steps towards the improvement of energy networks was highlighted by the President and CEO of IPTO, Manos Manousakis, during his presumption astatine the yearly league of the Renewables Grid Initiative “The Big Switch” held successful Brussels.

Manousakis referred to the request to beforehand organization reforms for the timely implementation of captious vigor projects. As helium said, among different things, further financing and regulatory incentives will beryllium needed successful bid to support the increasing demands for caller electrical infrastructure, which will request to beryllium implemented rapidly and connected an unprecedented scale.

On this basis, helium commented that the regulatory model successful narration to the financing of web improvement projects whitethorn request to beryllium reviewed, noting that if such a betterment proceeds, the indispensable guarantees should beryllium implemented to guarantee the independency of the operators and the accelerated operation of the projects, which helium described arsenic indispensable for the strategic autonomy of the continent.

The caput of IPTO pointed retired the criticality of protecting electrical infrastructure crossed the European continent, from the Baltic to the Eastern Mediterranean, citing Turkey’s effort to obstruct seabed surveys for the Greece-Cyprus-Israel Great Sea Interconnector project, successful July 2024. He besides stressed the value of exchanging know-how betwixt operators to woody with superior incidents, such arsenic the caller blackout successful Spain.

Priorities successful Greece

As for Greece, Manousakis projected arsenic cardinal priorities for IPTO digitalization, the integration of land networks, arsenic well arsenic the strengthening of planetary interconnections. He added that continuous practice and dialog with the section communities successful which the relation operates is simply a captious parameter for the smooth advancement of projects that are indispensable for the harmless supply of energy to consumers.

Regarding the home penetration of RES, Manousakis explained that the state is connected track to execute the ambitious vigor goals it has acceptable earlier than the 2030 milestone. He added that the relation is present proceeding with greenish energy procreation cuts based connected the information of the electrical system, which, arsenic helium said, are not related to grid congestion but to debased demand.

He assured that IPTO will proceed to bash everything imaginable for the accelerated improvement of the system successful bid to grow the available electrical space. In the absorption of the greenish transformation of the vigor mix, helium recalled that the operators are committed by the European Commission to continuously link caller RES units, emphasizing the trouble of the effort to implicit the organization interventions promoted by the Commission to negociate the issue.

Manousakis besides referred to the value of improving the distant power of each RES, aiming astatine the safer load organisation successful conditions of geographically dispersed energy generation. In this context, helium underlined the request for Cumulative Representation Bodies to get the technical capableness to power the groups of units they represent, arsenic if they were an entity, similar the distributed units successful the transmission system.