Task Force on five axes aimed at retention of its prices electricity activated at European level, by decision of the Council of Ministers of Energy EU which was taken last week following a proposal submitted to the Community institutions in January by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The Council, which was involved in the Greek side by the Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou and Deputy Minister Nikos Tsafos, ordered the team to set up and its immediate convergence to deal with the following issues:

  1. Optimizing the use of existing infrastructure and accelerate future interconnection and related investments, giving priority to areas with large price differences
  2. Enhance the coordination of EU countries in regional and national long -term policy plans with a significant impact on the energy sector
  3. Monitoring EU countries’ actions to implement the Action Plan for affordable action, in particular the measures on the licensing, taxation and flexibility of the system
  4. Discussion of Sections of Mutual Interest in terms of EU law enforcement
  5. Any other issue that prevents the completion of the energy compound and in which the special team could contribute

The main bet of Greek interest, as RIS sources notes, is Task Force’s effective intervention to remove obstacles to cross -border electricity trade that had extreme impact on prices last summer with the cost of launching the cost in the European south, as opposed to the north.

A phenomenon that is systematically repeated this year and this year though not as extreme fluctuations as in 2024.

But one cannot rule out that geopolitical uncertainty, climate crisis (scarf affecting hydroelectric production) and rising temperatures due to summer will not again lead to extreme prices.

In his statements to RES-EIA, Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou notes:

“At the Council of Energy Ministers of the European Union this week in Luxembourg, Europe for the first time acknowledged the reality of persistent energy inequalities.

He found in the most formal way, what Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had already highlighted last January to the President of the European Commission.

That is, there are clear dividing lines and a bridging energy rift on the energy map of our continent. A rift that threatens the cohesion of the internal market, the purchasing power of households and the competitiveness of European industry.

The new, special impact team for the Energy Union, set up in Luxembourg, is planning its first meeting for our region, at the request of the Greek side, before the end of June, while its plenary session will meet in September.

The first step was to realize the problem, now it’s time for Europe to deal with it effectively. And this cannot be done with 27 different policies, but with a common and realistic energy policy that is more necessary than ever. “

The group is made up of high -ranking representatives of the EU Commission and countries and, as appropriate, supported by competent EU bodies, such as the Energy Regulatory Authority (ACE) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), experts and more.