Perdikaris (GEK TERNA): A twenty-year national infrastructure plan is needed

The request for contiguous enactment connected the portion of the Greek state successful bid to debar creating an concern spread aft the extremity of the Recovery and Resilience Fund successful the summertime of 2026 was highlighted by the president of GEK TERNA, George Perdikaris, speaking within the model of the 8th Infrastructure and Transport Conference (ITC 2025).

“We judge successful a balanced improvement betwixt the nationalist and backstage sectors. After all, 50% of our turnover comes from our ain investments, 30% from the backstage assemblage and lone 20% from nationalist projects. We judge that the beingness of a premix of projects offers greater information to the investor”, Perdikaris noted.

He stressed that, though the existing unexecuted equilibrium – of 17 cardinal euros for ample concern and operation groups – is sufficient for different three years, there is nary country for complacency. In this context, arsenic helium noted, it is expected to spot however the three fiscal instruments amounting to 8 cardinal euros will beryllium utilized, the activation of which for 2026 has been announced by the enactment of the Ministry of Development.

The President of TERNA stressed that the activation of the Standard Proposals, an institutionalized tool that tin screen the fiscal spread of the State, is of captious importance. For example, arsenic helium mentioned, successful the Attica Motorway enlargement projects, if the Standard Proposals were applied, the State’s fiscal publication would start from 2037 onwards.

Priority areas

Perdikaris stressed that the precedence areas are the following:

-Water infrastructure and rational water management. As helium said, water needs successful Greece from 2001 to 2025 person accrued by 140%, while water reserves person been constricted – already successful Yliki and Mornos they magnitude to 400 cardinal cubic meters, which is the yearly depletion of Athens. Total water use successful the state reaches 1 cardinal cubic meters per year.

-Waste management. In Athens and Thessaloniki, where 50% of the country’s waste is produced, projects are “frozen” and the upgrade of Waste Treatment Units (WTPs) to Recycling Recovery Units (RRUs) has not adjacent progressed, successful bid to execute the extremity of landfilling lone 10% of waste by 2030,” helium said, among different things.

-Adoption of an infrastructure adaptation program to clime change.

-Boosting the productivity of operation companies. Productivity has decreased importantly owed to the disinvestment play that followed the crisis. From 2007 to 2021, investments successful mechanical instrumentality fell abbreviated of depreciation.

-Digitization of operations of technical companies with the purpose of expanding productivity.