Stavros Papastavrou: We are implementing Greece’s largest public solar park in Western Greece

The sojourn of the Minister of Environment and Energy, Stavros Papastavrou, to Aitoloakarnania has been completed, aiming to fortify practice with section authorities, productive sectors, and section communities.

The curate visited the country wherever the largest nationalist cooperative photovoltaic parkland successful Greece is planned to beryllium developed. The task was institutionalized done a instrumentality passed by the Ministry past Thursday successful Parliament. It is simply a task of large value for the country’s vigor transition, sustainable development, and the strengthening of Aitoloakarnania and Western Greece’s relation successful the caller vigor representation of Greece.

Once completed, the task is expected to trim vigor costs for beneficiaries by up to 62%, providing vigor information to 147,000 farmers and citizens. At the aforesaid time, it has a beardown societal dimension, arsenic it volition screen the needs of 17,000 susceptible households and straight impact astir 300,000 residents crossed 12 municipalities successful the region.

The plant’s capableness is expected to scope 105 MW, making it the largest nationalist virtual nett metering task successful Greece and 1 of the largest successful Europe. The task volition beryllium developed connected nationalist onshore successful Messolonghi (Polder estate), which has been granted to the Region of Western Greece by the Ministry of Rural Development. Part of the task volition beryllium funded done the Regional Operational Programme of Western Greece, with €25 cardinal already allocated.

Papastavrou stated:
“We are putting vigor ideology into practice. We are implementing successful Western Greece the largest nationalist cooperative photovoltaic parkland successful the country. 147,000 farmers volition payment and 17,000 susceptible households volition person escaped electricity. This was an contented that the determination authorization had raised successful an organized and well-documented way, having besides secured European funding. The committedness of the authorities of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to support a continuous beingness successful the regions and instrumentality policies that code the existent needs of citizens. With planning, consistency, and cooperation, we are moving guardant with interventions that boost development, fortify vigor security, trim vigor costs, and amended citizens’ regular lives.”

The Regional Governor of Western Greece, Nektarios Farmakis, said:
“A large imaginativeness for Western Greece is present taking signifier arsenic a existent project. Years of effort are opening to carnivore fruit. The organization model for the Region’s vigor communities enables america to instrumentality the largest cooperative vigor ideology task successful the state and 1 of the largest successful Europe. I warmly convey the Minister for his invaluable contribution, arsenic good arsenic erstwhile enactment of the Ministry. The Prime Minister himself believed successful our vision, which proved decisive. Our work present is to determination rapidly with implementation, offering important vigor alleviation to hundreds of thousands of citizens.”

Earlier, the curate visited Messolonghi, wherever helium paid respects to the Holy Icon of Panagia “Axion Esti,” and met with the Mayor of the Sacred City of Messolonghi, Spyros Diamantopoulos, to sermon section issues and practice opportunities with the Ministry.

A wide moving gathering was besides held with the information of Regional Governor Nektarios Farmakis, MP Thanasis Papathanasis, and section mayors. Discussions focused connected vigor infrastructure upgrades, h2o assets management, biology protection, and projects to heighten improvement and regular beingness successful Aitoloakarnania.

As portion of the visit, Papastavrou besides met with the President of the Aitoloakarnania Chamber, Panagiotis Tsichritzis, to sermon strengthening entrepreneurship and the section system done vigor tools and investments.