Greece installed 1.59 GW of solar in 2023, bringing the country’s cumulative PV capacity to 7.1 GW by the end of December.

Greece’s public administration does not have an institution that publishes regular energy statistics for all technologies and supporting schemes. Different institutions therefore often publish reports covering different segments of the market, generating confusion about the nation's installed power capacity.

Dapeep, which is Greece’s renewable energy sources operator, is such an example. Dapeep said that Greece installed 1.183 MW of new PV capacity in 2023, dominated by ground-mounted systems. However, its reports do not include capacity installed via the net metering scheme and the energy community programs.

The Hellenic Association of Photovoltaic Companies (Helapco) published a separate report in February claiming that Greece installed a total of 1,574.7 MW of new photovoltaic capacity in 2023.

This week, Helapco told that it has updated its records to include a 16 MW net metering PV system installed last year at Athens International Airport. The 16 MW solar park is the largest PV project under net metering for self-consumption purposes in the country.

Helapco told that Greece installed 1,591 MW of new solar capacity last year, bringing the nation's photovoltaic fleet to 7105 MW. This is Greece’s largest addition of solar capacity in a single year. In 2022, the country had deployed 1.36 GW of new PV capacity.

The new capacity includes systems supported by premium tariffs awarded via competitive tenders, small systems up to 500 kW each remunerated by feed-in tariffs, net metering systems, energy community projects, and PV projects that participate directly in the electricity market without subsidy support.

Helapco has told that Greece has not yet installed any solar projects that operate via merchant power purchase agreements (PPAs). Dapeep’s report said that in the end of 2023 there was 183.7 MW of PV capacity participating directly to the electricity market. Helapco Policy Officer Stelios Psomas said that this is not capacity operating under PPAs and claimed that Dapeep has not published a list detailing these projects.

From: ILIAS TSAGAS