Energy costs shutter factories

‘The outgo of vigor for some companies reaches up to 60% of operating costs. There are already two companies successful SEV, which I understand are considering closing two ample factories if a λύση is not recovered soon,’ said SEV President Spyros Theodoropoulos.

The contented of vigor costs is still unresolved. Energy prices successful Europe stay high, admitted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently, taking stock of vigor policy.

She besides admitted that “in some member-states, energy costs two oregon three times much than successful others,” which she linked to the deficiency of sufficient interconnections and the insufficient use of existing ones. Greece belongs to this class of countries, where vigor prices are treble oregon adjacent triple the prices of different countries successful Central and Western Europe, making the contented of reducing vigor costs for energy-intensive industry, arsenic manufacture players person repeatedly stressed, existential.

After continuous unit from the industry, the Greek authorities seemed to beryllium paying attraction to the occupation and making it a precedence astatine large delay, arsenic is evident from the revelations made by Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) President Spyros Theodoropoulos connected Wednesday astir two industries that are earnestly considering closing down if a λύση is not recovered soon.

“The outgo of vigor for some companies reaches up to 60% of operating costs. It is the biggest occupation we are facing astatine the moment. We are under large unit from our competitors successful Turkey and successful Europe. There are already two companies successful SEV which I understand are considering closing two ample factories if a λύση is not recovered soon,” helium told the wide assembly of the Federation of Industries of Central Greece, where the keynote speaker was Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis. Asked what benignant of businesses helium meant, the SEV president replied, “They are dense manufacture companies and if we suffer them our system will suffer.”

The alarm doorbell the SEV president rang came conscionable two days aft the informal interministerial gathering connected vigor costs, astatine which SEV did not person the expected effect from the authorities to its connection for the adoption of the “Italian model,” which would guarantee debased prices for energy-intensive manufacture from renewables for three years successful speech for the instrumentality of the available quantity implicit a play of 20 years, sending a connection astir the urgency of the situation.