Directorate-General for Energy

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy (DG Energy) has announced that it has been proposed that the power interconnector planned by Greece and Egypt, dubbed GREGY, be included in the European Union's list of Projects of Mutual Interest (PMI).

The list is expected to be endorsed by the European Parliament and the European Council within the next two months.

President Klaus Iohannis decorated on Wednesday former Director General of the Legal Service of the European Union Council Hubert Legal and former Director General of the Directorate-General for Energy within the European Commission Dominique Ristori with the National "Order For Merit," in rank of Commander.

The European Commission has sent a fresh warning to Greece over the crucial project of the electrical interconnection of Crete with Attica, which Athens has unilaterally conceded to state grid operator ADMIE.

Brussels is raising obstacles to Chinese plans to enter Greece's energy market, reversing the situation in the tender for the privatization of Public Private Corporation's lignite-fired plants where CHN Energy had appeared to be the favorite.

The new round of negotiations between the Greek government and the European Commission on the project to hook up Crete to the mainland's power grid has come to a total impasse. The issue in question concerns the rejection by Brussels of the project's direct concession to a subsidiary of state-owned grid operator ADMIE.