On Wednesday the prices for the “green” electricity tariffs are announced – Papastavrou: “If necessary, we will intervene”

Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou near unfastened the anticipation of authorities intervention, if necessary, to bounds the charges to consumers.

The wholesale terms for September closed astatine 91 euros per megawatt-hour (9.1 cents per kilowatt-hour), up 24.4 percent from 73 euros successful August. Meanwhile, “green” tariffs successful September ranged from 8.9 to 16 cents per kilowatt-hour, with the PPC – which covers the immense bulk of consumers – mounting the terms astatine 13 cents.

“The terms of vigor costs is simply a apical precedence for the government. If an effort is recovered not to walk connected reductions to the retail sector, the authorities volition intervene,” Papastavrou said, expressing anticipation that determination volition beryllium nary increases – or, if determination are, they volition beryllium limited. “This, however, volition beryllium connected the last wholesale terms that volition beryllium acceptable tomorrow,” helium added.