The complex of the three wind power plants of TERNA ENERGY, apart from all the endless errors that were made and submitted to the Electronic Environmental Register during the public consultation of the Environmental Impact Study, also has significant legal issues on the producer certificates issued by RAEAY and which are referred to in the cancellation applications that will be discussed on 23-1-2026 at the Athens Administrative Court of Appeal.
The most important legal issue is that the Peloponnese grid is now saturated for new RES projects.This means that wind farms, for example, even if they are built, will not be able to inject the energy to be produced into the ESMIE.
In order to address the significant problem of network saturation, the Independent Transmission System Operator (IDTO) has planned and launched a series of «expansion» projects which essentially consist of the construction of new High Voltage Centres (HVDCs) and two new 400kV transmission lines, with the aim of «connecting» the Megalopolis substation with the Distomo substation and then with the Acheloos substation (Western Corridor) on the one hand, and with the Corinth substation and then with the Koumoundourou substation (Eastern Corridor) on the other.
However, neither of the above two Corridors have been fully completed. However, even assuming the completion of both Corridors, the capacity margin of the wind farms that will be built in the Peloponnese and will be able to be connected to the ESMIE already amounted to only an additional 17 MW of wind power as of March 2021 and concerned wind farms that had (anyway) long since received Final Offers of Connection.
In simple words, the A/P complex in question will not be able to connect to the ESMEE, even when the above mentioned network «extension» projects, i.e. the Western and Eastern Corridors, are finally completed.
Over time, the legislator has prohibited the granting of former Production Licences and current Producer Certificates (simple or Special Project Certificates) in the Peloponnese as a whole, as in any other saturated network.
RAAEY has incorrectly issued producer certificates for the complex of three wind farms of TERNA on the island and now the Administrative Court of Appeal of Athens is called to decide.
TERNA ENERGY chooses not to withdraw the producer certificates as the Copelouzos and ELLAKTOR groups did in the past, wanting to keep them for the 25 years foreseen by the legislation. It will find the island permanently united and strong against them until these projects are finally cancelled.
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