EREF, the European Renewable Energies Federation,together with GAREP, the Greek Association of Renewable Electricity Producers, representing the vast majority and the full technological spectrum of installed renewable capacity in Greece, would hereby like to call upon you and the European commission and to request your support in dealing with the recent decision of the Greek Government to impose a levy on the supposedly “guaranteed” gross income of all operating RES projects in Greece.
The Particular decision, which was rushed through the Greek Parliament and hastily approved by a slim parliamentary majority on November 7, 2012 as part of a huge package of fiscal austerity and economic reform measures, aims to reduce the continuously growing deficit of the Greek electricity Market Operator by cutting unilaterally the Operator’s payment obligations to the RES producers for three(2+1) Years.