Skylakakis: Green electricity tariffs are not to be abolished

Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis denied that "green" electricity bills were being abolished, according to a ministry announcement on Friday, while clarifying that power providers will no longer be obliged to offer the "green" billing system to new customers from the start of 2025.

"The green bill is not being abolished. It will continue to be offered to all those that have chosen it. What is being abolished is the obligation of power providers to offer it, from January 1, 2025," Skylakakis said in a radio interview.

Existing customers will continue to receive green bills until they decide to change billing type or provider, for any reason, the minister added.

He noted that European legislation does not permit "obligatory restrictions" as regards billing and that the measure had in any case been transitional, with a one-year duration, while...