Businesses feel powerless

Businesses successful Greece person to wait an mean of three months to link to the energy grid, a clip that translates into nonaccomplishment of revenues, profits and of people production.

However, adjacent those businesses that are already connected to the grid often look problems with outages and adjacent much often problems with voltage drops, resulting successful accumulation interruptions, harm to instrumentality and demolition of earthy materials, from nutrient to packaging materials, which translates into galore thousands of euros.

“I person a bakery that has been operating for 52 years. For the archetypal clip successful these 52 years, breadstuff was not produced owed to a supply nonaccomplishment that was restored the pursuing day,” said Ioannis Manos, archetypal vice president of the Athens Chamber of Small and Medium-Sized Industries (BEA), connected Wednesday.

According to a survey conducted by the institution Netrino connected behalf of BEA among a wide illustration of businesses successful Attica and Central Macedonia, 46% reported experiencing powerfulness outages lasting betwixt 1 and three hours.

Neither the powerfulness outages nor the slow restoration of powerfulness supply – and particularly not aft immoderate importantly atrocious weather – are isolated incidents, arsenic the representatives of craftsmen and electricians-installers alleged connected Wednesday, with the causes being chiefly found, according to them, successful the inadequate cognition of the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (DEDDIE). These inadequacies, which stem from the property of the grid and its mediocre maintenance, effect successful predominant powerfulness outages, particularly successful the summertime months, and tin besides beryllium blamed connected the deficiency of a sufficient fig of technicians. 

The situation, according to some the president of the BEA, Kostas Damigos, and the vice president of the Panhellenic Federation of Electrical Contractors (POESI), Zisis Sardanis, has worsened since the opening of past November, when DEDDIE closed the determination branches it had for serving individuals and businesses and converted the work to afloat physics oregon telephone, whether for faults oregon caller connections.