Filenews 19 May 2025 - by Chrysanthos Manoli
A new agonizing warning about a serious problem of electricity adequacy for the summer of 2025 and for the economic survival of EAC was made on Monday morning by the president of the EAC Scientific Staff Guild, Marios Pappoutis.
Mr. Pappoutis said that there is a long delay in the implementation of infrastructure projects, with the main one being the delay in the arrival of natural gas and the reinforcement of production from the Dhekelia station and the storage facility in substations, with the result that the adequate coverage of electricity needs for this summer and in the coming years is marginal to questionable.
He argued that the delay in the implementation of specific decisions for additional production, not the responsibility of the EAC, "unfortunately brought us into a tragic situation".
Desalination plants need electricity
As Fileleftheros is informed, although the competent authorities do not publicly acknowledge the risk of power outages this summer, the technocrats of EAC and the Transmission System Operator are concerned - and have informed - about a significant gap between the maximum electricity production capacity and the expected demand, especially if significant failures occur in production units.
Our information indicates that this gap is currently estimated at around 30 megawatts. However, the Government's decision to install 13 desalination plants in an area within the Moni's power plant will increase the fraudulent available power by about 10-13 megawatts and indeed on a 24-hour basis. Something that increases the concerns of technocrats about the possibility of meeting the needs without periodic disconnections of consumers from the grid, especially at hours when the photovoltaic systems will not produce.
In addition, the Chairman of SEPAEK expressed concern about the apparent decision of the Board of Directors of EAC to accept the decision-suggestion of the President of the Republic not to impose increases of about 9% on EAC pricing, so that the organization can recover expenses incurred for infrastructure projects in production and especially in networks, after approval by CERA.
Mr. Pappoutis said that this is the third time that under the current government, EAC is prevented from recovering expenses approved by CERA, and questioned whether this is being done deliberately. He warned that the obstruction of the recovery of expenses from the EAC creates financial deficits in the organization and undermines its smooth operation.
Mr. Pappoutis confirmed that the guilds have asked the EAC management and management for urgent information on the real financial situation of the organization and the positions of its technocrats on the issue of cost recovery and expect that within the week they will be given this information, so that they can evaluate it and make decisions on the stance they will take.
