IPTO: In public consultation the preliminary ten-year development programme

News, important for enhancing the reliability and resilience of the Transmission System and serving the increasing penetration of RES (land and offshore) are included in the Preliminary Plan of its Decade Development Plan 2025 – 2034 . The total budget of projects in the IUU Plan for the period under consideration is EUR 5.5 billion. In addition, the new U.S.A. includes for the first time the new cross-border connections of Green Aegean Interconnectedor and Saudi Greek Interconnectedion, which began to mature the IPTO during the year that passed. New projects The most important new projects that have been included in the IPA Preliminary Plan 2025-2034 , approved by the IPTO Board and given public consultation before being finalised and submitted for approval to the Waste, Energy and Water Regulatory Authority (RAEE), are the following: Creation of a new High Voltage Centre in Thessaly and its connection to the 400 kV System, as the natural phenomena that hit the area last year highlighted the need to implement an additional KYT, aiming to limit the effects of the possible loss of one of the two existing KYTs to Trikala and Larissa. In this context, the construction of a new Transmission Line of High Voltage Trikala-Larisa CYT is also planned, providing additional options for power transmission. Development of a new KYT in the area of Lamia and its connection to the High and High Voltage System. These are projects that increase the reliability of service of cargo in the region and will allow increased production from RES to be absorbed. Development of new KYTs in Mesogeia, which will allow the strengthening of the supply of the wider region (which shows trends in load growth) and the reliable channelling of the production of the Lavrio Thermal Power Station, the RES stations connected to Lavrio and additional production from RES to Evia. Creating a new KYT in Roof, which will allow the replacement of 150 KV aerial lines starting from Roof and crossing the western suburbs, with new 400 KV underground cable lines. Add equipment of the High Voltage to the KYT of Kardia, Thessaloniki and High Voltage in the KyT Amyntaiou, Lavrio and Pallini. International connections also occupy the international connections promoted by IPTO, which serve the national objective of making Greece an exporter of green energy, while promoting the EU’s objectives to find new energy sources and speed up the green transition. A total of the IPME after the completion of the second interconnection with Bulgaria, matures new connections with Italy (1,000 MW) Albania (1,600 MVA) and Turkey. These are projects at the northern border, which frame the major links that are under way: Greece – Cyprus – Israel (Great Sea Interconnectedor) and the new electric highway between Greece – Germany, Green Aegean Interconnectedor. As mentioned in the IPA Preliminary Plan, the design for GAI concerns total transport capacity of 3 GW and in a second year on further development of 6 – 9 GW. The proposed route of the project that has an initial budget estimate of €8.1 billion relates to underwater transit from Greece through Adriatic to Slovenia, and then via land route to Austria and South Germany. Discussions are ongoing with the relevant Transmission System Operators who have expressed their willingness to cooperate in the development of the project. A critical energy infrastructure launched in the Eastern Mediterranean region is the electricity interconnection between Greece and Egypt GREGY, which will allow the transport of clean energy produced in North Africa to Europe, with a gateway to Greece. IPTO, in collaboration with the project promoter ELICA S.A. and the EETC Transmission System Operator, actively contributes to the maturation of the new interface with the next step the preparation of feasibility studies on the best technical solution. In addition, IPTO also examines its investment participation in the project, on the MoU basis signed in 2023 with ELICA, on the opening of exclusive discussions on the assessment of the Operator’s entry into the SPV equity capital that develops the project of the electrical interconnection between Greece and Egypt. Special mention is also made of the Greek-Saudi Arabia interconnection plan and the establishment of the Saudi Greek Interconnectedion special purpose company by the IPTO and Saudi Transmission System Operator National Grid as a first step towards the development of the project, by preparing studies on the commercial viability of the clean energy interconnection project from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe. Finally, it is noted that in the preliminary draft IMPs 2025-2024 increases the transport capacity of the Kos-Corinth interconnection (i.e. the basic “column” of the Dodecanese interconnection) to 1,000 MW (from 900 previously), and updates the timetable of the Crete-Attiki interconnection with an integration horizon in the first half of 2025. The Minister of Environment and Energy, Theodoros Skylakakis, said: “The preliminary, ten-year development programme 2025 – 2034 of IPTO, which is put into public consultation, includes ambitious initiatives that can consolidate Greece’s position on the international energy map. It provides, inter alia, the development of strategic cross-border connections and the further penetration of Renewable Energy sources – where we have a strong competitive advantage – in our country’s energy potential. The successful implementation of the 10-year programme can contribute, catalytically, to the national objectives of the green transition, to the strengthening of Greece’s energy security and its development in an export green energy country.” The President and CEO of ADME Manos Manousakis stressed: “The new 10-year Development Plan 2025-2034 marks a new era for IPME, a time of significant expansion of the system within and outside borders that will allow further penetration of RES and will make infrastructure more durable in climate crisis conditions, serving the national goal of making Greece an exporter of green energy.”