With the completion of the three -month extension of the cold reserve given at the behest of the Ministry of Energy and the Environment, the Melitis Power Station is in the history of the country’s power generation.

Yesterday midnight, the director of the station Christos Prettis ordered all operating systems that have kept the unit alive for the last 41 years.

In its announcements, the Florina Labor Center is calling on the state to support the 120 contractor workers, who are currently under work.

The station worked 160 people as permanent PPC staff and 120 people in contractors. Speaking to RES-EIA, the station’s manager explained that “some employees have already left under the voluntary retirement regime offered by the business and that 30 people will remain unknown at present until the factory withdrawal procedures have been completed.”

The rest of the employees, as has already been disclosed, will be transferred to other areas of the business.

Giannis Fasidis, president of Spartakos, the largest PPC workers’ union, said: “We have expressed our disagreement in the apolitical program and repeatedly said that lignite should remain for energy safety in the energy mix.”

The station and the story of

The Melitis is 330 megawatt and produced about 2,500 gigavat on an annual basis.

It was launched in May 2003 and in commercial operation in August of the same year. EUR 571 million was spent on the construction of the station and the installations were completed in 4 years and 7 months.

It was supplied with lignite from the Florina and Kozani mines.

At his time he was considered one of the most modern PPC steam stations in Europe and was inaugurated on February 18, 2004 by then Prime Minister Costas Simitis.