The central theme of this year's TIF was the major international interconnection projects that IPTO is implementing and developing, with a focus on Greece, on each side of the borders, contributing to the national strategy for the country's emergence as a strong exporter of green energy in the coming years.

QUADRUPLING OF RESOURCES

At the opening of the pavilion, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Theo Skylakakis, described high-voltage networks as crucial for achieving the objectives of the green transition, stressing that over the last five years Greece has quadrupled the resources allocated in this direction to €1.2 billion per year.
For her part, the Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, Alexandra Sdoukou, referred to the upgrades of the networks, which, she said, are top priority projects, praising on this basis the assistance of ADMIE, which, thanks to its technical competence and high level of expertise, is able to implement domestic and international interconnections.

STRATEGY

The President and CEO of ADMIE, Manos Manousakis, said, among other things, that "the new pillar of our strategy is international interconnections. We have reached the point where the European economic space in terms of energy is absolutely necessary to unify just to have light, as the blackout in the Western Balkans last August showed. It is also an opportunity for Europe to be able, if the problems of competition are solved, to import green, cheap energy produced in North Africa and the Middle East. In all this, ADMIE wants to contribute to the strategy that Greece is developing as the country's executive arm in its energy planning." 

SUBMARINE CABLES

Manousakis also referred to the next projects of the Operator, announcing the launch of the second phase of the competitive dialogue regarding the high-voltage submarine cables of all interconnections in the Aegean and Ionian Sea and the imminent announcement of the tender for the interconnection of the Dodecanese islands in the near future.