He rushes to collect … uncollected things DADDI shortly before the opening of the application platform for network connection contracts by its beneficiaries rooftop photovoltaic programin order to prevent the possible blocking of the process by appeals and the transformation of the program, first voiced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself, into … a fiasco.

Shortly before the opening of a modernized platform for accepting applications for connection contracts from beneficiaries of the subsidized up to 60% program “photovoltaic installations on rooftops”, DEDDIE is in a hurry to lift the “ban” on the issuance of new contracts, lifted in Crete, Peloponnese and Cyclades since December last year in implementation context of the “obscure”, as the administrator’s side characterizes it, the RAE solution.

The Competent Authority intervened following complaints from DEDDIE bidders regarding the provision of connection conditions for small photovoltaic installations (up to 400 kV) in the saturated grids of Crete and Peloponnese after the “opening” of space at 140 MW and 86 MW respectively. and by decision “frozen” her process in order to conduct a detailed review.

DEDDIE, pursuant to the RAE decision, also suspended the signing of connection contracts for residential photovoltaic systems and even for the Cyclades region, despite the fact that the corresponding tender did not encounter any problems and was not affected by the RAE decision.

A large number of applications in three regions (Cyclades, Peloponnese and Crete) “hung” while it was at the stage of signing the connection agreement and DEDDIE began to realize the risk of blowing up all the planning for the new “rooftop photovoltaic”, due to the inevitable calls to claim priority. because there is no room for everyone.

Following this, DEDDIE, at the fifth launch point of the new program, just last Friday, began to “unfreeze” the connection contracts relating to residential photovoltaic systems up to 10.8 kV, with an order to check them and close them immediately. .

The decision to “unfreeze” applications confirms “K” Director of the Directorate of Network Users DEDDIE Dimitris Vranis, assuring that “those who are ahead will receive contracts.” The solution, he said, is about immediately monitoring and shutting down pending requests and the interconnected system and signing contracts where there is electrical space. He implicitly admits that the decision to “freeze” applications was a mistake, which he attributes to ambiguities in the relevant decision of the RAE. Finally, DADDI informed the responsible minister in December last year. Kostas Skrekas with a letter he sent to Parliament on the consequences of any “freeze” in the process of considering submitted applications and the subsequent suspension of the provision of connection conditions.

It stated, among other things, that “this would lead to irremediable situations which would consist of not satisfying, in effect invalidating, successfully submitted requests for the provision of a final connection proposal for which an Application Certificate Submission had been issued and sent to the requesting manufacturers indicating that what this means for the subsequent course of the licensing process of the investment in question and the corresponding underlying risk (legal and financial) of our company in the event of any future cancellation. these investments. The letter was sent to Parliament on December 22, the same day that the RAE decided to “freeze” two tenders in Crete and the Peloponnese.