Power theft of 1 mln euros in tourism resorts

Power grid manager DEDDIE has successful caller days identified implicit 2,000 instances of violations involving stolen energy, the value of which is estimated astatine much than 1 cardinal euros, successful areas with precocious tourism activity. 

The inspections to find cases of energy theft proceed with specialized unit passim Greece astatine an intensive gait to combat the phenomenon, with the purpose of protecting accordant consumers and ensuring the smooth cognition of the network.

In caller days, 1,155 inspections person been completed involving ample consumers, chiefly catering and hospitality establishments, supermarkets, bakeries, olive mills, packaging plants and food factories, successful Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Naxos, Tinos, Mykonos, Santorini and Ikaria, from which astatine slightest 200 cases of powerfulness theft person emerged. 

Indicatively, some of the cases identified and expected – according to archetypal estimates – to pb to confirmed debts reaching respective tens oregon hundreds of thousands of euros, are the following: A edifice with much than €200,000, a supermarket with €63,000, a food mill with €20,000, a packing and processing installation with €50,000, two olive mill with €30,000 each, and a formation barroom with €60,000.

In parallel with the inspections, DEDDIE reminds that energy theft constitutes a transgression discourtesy and entails the imposition of strict fines, based connected the existent legislative framework, which is determined by the RAAEY watchdog. 

However, the process of collecting confirmed debts, contempt their contiguous confirmation, is often importantly delayed, sometimes for much than a year, owed to the scheduled installments and the anticipation of resorting to ineligible remedies, such arsenic interim orders oregon injunctions. 

During the archetypal 5 months of this year, arsenic stated successful a applicable DEDDIE announcement, important yearly increases were recorded successful each cardinal indexes, arsenic technical inspections accrued by 65%, reaching astir 23,000, indebtedness confirmations accrued by 39%, reaching astir 8,600 and confirmed claims recorded an summation of 57%, reaching €35.3 million.