Greece was strongly exported to current For another month, February, thus continuing the trend observed in export for about a year.
ADMIE’s latest bulletin showed that our country exported the superfluous quantities of electricity from what it introduced. Specifically, exports were raised by 73% per year to 642 GWh, while imports were reduced by 72% to 202 GWh.
The new Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, Nikos Tsafos, recently mentioned the emergence of our country as an exporter. According to him, this is a positive development because it means that we are basically cheaper than our neighbors. Conversely, if we were clean importers it would be due to the fact that we have more expensive domestic prices.
In addition to the balance of overseas, ADMIE data showed a rapid rise in domestic production by 29% compared to last February.
The increase came as a result of exports and cold, which led to more operation of conventional units. Natural gas (+107% per year) and lignite (+17%) covered 59.5% of the needs last month. On the other hand, the RES found only 36%.
It is also worth noting that demand in our country was up to 6.3% per year.
Finally, in the suppliers’ shares, PPC was steady first in February, and even reinforcing its proportion from 51.08% of January to 51.40%.