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Public Power Corporation (PPC) is the leading Southeast European energy utility, with activities in electricity generation, distribution and sale of advanced energy products and services in Greece, Romania, and North Macedonia.

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Response to Roadmap for artificial intelligence and digitalisation for energy (RAID-E)

5 Nov 2025

PPC Group is a leading PowerTech company in Southeast Europe, operating across the full electricity value chain - from generation to distribution and supply. We are also investing in the next wave of digital infrastructure, including fiber networks and advanced data centres. A cornerstone of this transition is our EUR 5.75 billion investment in a new 300 MW data centre campus in Northern Greece, transforming the former coal mining region of Kozani into a hub for sustainable, high-performance computing. Digitalisation and AI are central to achieving a secure, affordable, and decarbonised European energy system. A strategic, coordinated EU approach can accelerate innovation while safeguarding reliability and consumer trust. PPC stands ready to contribute its experience from ongoing grid digitalisation and AI projects to support this roadmaps implementation. AI will profoundly transform the energy sector by improving real-time forecasting, enhancing grid management, and balancing renewable intermittency. However, while its use cases are numerous, there is a need to clearly prioritise the most impactful applications for the energy sector and address obstacles to the sustainable integration of data centres into the electricity system. AI should be seen as an infrastructure-driven economy: the ability to build and power data centres, and to train the people who operate them, will increasingly dictate the pace of innovation. While hardware like chips and GPUs are critical, having the ability to effectively power AI infrastructure should be seen as equally important. This perspective highlights that the key constraints on AI progress may soon be electrons and skilled hands, rather than chips or capital. Properly integrated data centres, coupled with a skilled workforce, are therefore essential to unlocking scalable AI for energy while maintaining a resilient, low-carbon electricity system.
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Response to Digital package – digital omnibus

14 Oct 2025

PPC Group is the leading PowerTech company in Southeast Europe, driving innovation across the entire energy value chain from electricity generation to distribution. Expanding beyond energy, we are investing in the future of digital infrastructure, including fiber networks and data centres. Simplifying the EUs digital rulebook is essential to ensure that Europes twin energy and digital transitions remain competitive, secure, and affordable. Digitalisation and AI are already transforming the energy sector, optimising grids, enabling flexibility, and improving efficiency. Overlapping regulations slow innovation and divert resources from resilience. Companies like PPC face duplicative obligations across the Data Act, GDPR, DGA, AI Act, and cybersecurity regimes such as NIS2 and CRA, alongside sectoral rules. We thus support the Commissions efforts to streamline and align these frameworks. Overlapping duties under the Data Act, Data Governance Act, and General Data Protection Regulation constrain sectoral digitalisation. Flexible data access is key to boost efficiency, integrate renewables, and enable innovations like demand response and vehicle-to-grid. AI with the potential to strengthen system resilience relies on diverse data sets. Consequently, data sharing should be voluntary and risk-based, avoiding excessive administrative burdens. Industry-led codes of conduct coordinated by ENTSO-E and the EU DSO Entity could promote industry and sector collaboration and avoid rigid mandates. Safeguards protecting trade secrets and cybersecurity must allow data holders to refuse sharing requests without excessive procedural obligations. Governance should be streamlined under a single competent authority per Member State. It is equally important that the Data Act does not duplicate requirements already established in sectoral legislation such as the Electricity Directives interoperability framework, which should take precedence. Europes cybersecurity framework is strong but fragmented, with overlapping obligations under NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR and sectoral codes that create costs and administrative burdens. Companies devote substantial resources to compliance, that could otherwise strengthen protection. A unified reporting system based on NIS2 thresholds and GDPRs 72-hour timeline would simplify requirements and reduce duplication. Reporting should be channeled through a single-entry point managed by ENISA, ensuring coordination between national authorities. Definitions of critical and high-risk elements should be harmonised, recognising that components such as solar panels or batteries play a vital role in decentralised systems. A strengthened ENISA mandate could ensure coherent risk-management frameworks, improved information-sharing, and clearer division of responsibilities across EU bodies. Artificial Intelligence is equally vital to both digital and energy transitions. It underpins predictive maintenance, grid optimisation, and demand-side flexibility, yet the AI Act imposes complex obligations, especially on requirements for high-risk AI, which lack EU-wide standards. Delays in developing harmonised standards create uncertainty about compliance ahead of the 2026 deadline. The entry into force of high-risk AI obligations should be postponed until at least one year after their publication. Clear guidance is also needed to define whether entities using high-risk AI internally qualify as both providers and deployers, limit the application of the concept only to AI that has a direct impact on safety components and narrow the broad safety component definition that currently adds administrative burden without improving safety. Consistent, sector-specific templates for risk and rights assessments would further support effective implementation.
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Response to Revision of the EU’s energy security framework

13 Oct 2025

Public Power Corporation (PPC), the leading electricity utility in Southeast Europe, welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the European Commissions call for evidence on the revision of the EUs Energy Security Framework. While the existing framework and common rules have helped establish a shared understanding and supported the development of coordinated mitigation measures, persistent implementation gaps seem to remain. Cross-border coordination remains limited, particularly with respect to solidarity agreements for gas and cross-border participation in capacity mechanisms. Interconnection capacities are not always guaranteed at periods of stress which can undermine market integration and challenge system resilience. Recent developments further underscore the need to adapt and enhance it to meet the emerging challenges of the future energy landscape. Uncoordinated national emergency measures such as gas price and electricity revenue caps were introduced outside the EUs risk preparedness framework, often without impact assessment. These actions distorted cross-border trading and weakened investors confidence, delaying progress along the energy transition timeline. In parallel, some Member States have considered restricting energy flows on security grounds, threatening the integrity of the internal market. At the same time, climate change is permanently reshaping system adequacy and security needs. Rising demand for cooling, lower hydropower availability, and increased weather-driven risks require planning tools and regulations that reflect seasonal and regional specificities. In addition, the rapid growth of data centers a new and increasingly weather-sensitive source of electricity demand further intensifies the need for more adaptive and forward-looking system planning. The current Gas Security of Supply Regulation, designed primarily to address winter heating needs, is no longer adequate for countries with a high share of natural gas in their power mix, such as Greece where peak electricity demand occurs during summer heatwaves. General comments We strongly support the Commissions initiative and highlights three priority areas for reform: 1. Strengthen regional coordination and cross-border solidarity to ensure coherent crisis response and avoid unilateral measures that undermine the internal market. 2. Integrate climate resilience and exposure to energy market volatility into energy security planning by enhancing risk assessments, better forecasting, system adequacy and flexibility methodologies, and regulatory frameworks to reflect evolving operational and potentially market realities. 3. Ensure market stability and investment certainty by limiting emergency interventions, providing clear rules for crisis management, and safeguarding the integrity of the internal energy market. We believe that the revised framework must combine coherent regulation, investment certainty, and a redefined approach to regional coordination. By embedding this regional dimension into infrastructure, demand planning, and crisis management, the EU can safeguard energy security in Southeast Europe and beyond.
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Meeting with Susana Solís Pérez (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Sept 2025 · Batteries and development

Response to European climate resilience and risk management law

4 Sept 2025

Public Power Corporation (PPC), the leading electricity utility in Southeast Europe, welcomes the European Commissions consultation as a timely opportunity to align regulatory frameworks, planning processes, and investment incentives with the realities of a rapidly changing climate. In this context, we highlight three priority areas for action: Protect consumers and vulnerable regions: Provide targeted EU support for regions with limited fiscal capacity, such as Southeast Europe, through financing and investment incentives. Strengthen system flexibility and resilience: Expand flexible generation, storage, and demand-response; link regional capacity mechanisms to the EU Heating and Cooling Strategy to address adequacy concerns from rising summer cooling demand; integrate physical grid resilience into National Energy and Climate Plans. Plan and invest for long-term climate risks: Embed climate adaptation and resilience into long-term network plans (TYNDP, DNDPs, ERAA), monitor economic impacts of extreme events, and ensure predictable regulatory cost recovery for resilience investments of DSOs beyond short regulatory cycles. We believe that the European Commissions Climate Resilience and Risk Management Framework should become a cornerstone of Europes energy and climate policy. By systematically assessing risks, embedding resilience into planning and regulation and incentivising timely investments the EU can build an electricity system that is not only decarbonised but also secure, adaptable, and reliable.
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Response to Digital Networks Act

11 Jul 2025

PPC, the leading electricity utility in Southeast Europe, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the upcoming Digital Networks Act. Through its fiber optic subsidiary, PPC FiberGrid, the Group is investing significantly in Greeces digital transformation by deploying a nationwide FTTH network. In light of persistent coverage gaps across the country and the findings of the State of the Digital Decade 2025 report, we believe the Digital Networks Act offers a crucial opportunity to accelerate fiber rollout, enhance competition, and ensure fair, open access to infrastructure. We stand ready to contribute to this shared EU objective and invite the Commission to consider our policy recommendations, attached herein.
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Meeting with Eric Ducoulombier (Acting Director Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union)

4 Jun 2025 · Exchange views on the future of the single market and sustainable finance, especially with regards to the Capital Markets Union

Meeting with Alice Guedel (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque), Cristina Dias (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)

4 Jun 2025 · Presented their company and achievements in the EU

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy)

4 Jun 2025 · Energy affordability, renewable energy deployment, grid modernisation and resilience

Meeting with Dan Nica (Member of the European Parliament) and BUSINESSEUROPE and

25 Mar 2025 · Debate on The role of CEE countries and Romania in strengthening the competitiveness of the European Union

Meeting with Teresa Ribera Rodríguez (Executive Vice-President) and

6 Mar 2025 · Greek Electricity Market

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

31 Jan 2025

PPC, the leading electricity utility in Southeast Europe, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the barriers and regulatory challenges hindering the completion of the Single Market, particularly in the energy sector. We also wish to offer policy recommendations to address these challenges, with the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of the power utility sector and delivering greater benefits to consumers. The European Single Market is widely recognised as one of the EU's greatest achievements. While significant progress has been made in integrating energy markets over the past two decades, there is still room for improvement. Continued efforts toward full harmonisation and integration of national electricity markets will help enhance cross-border electricity flows and ensure a more efficient allocation of resources across the EU. Please find attached our full response.
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Meeting with Dan Nica (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Dec 2024 · Exchange of views on: high electricity prices in south-east EU, Green Deal implementation, EU Industrial Strategy, EU competitiveness

Meeting with Apostolos Tzitzikostas (Commissioner) and

11 Dec 2024 · Courtesy meeting

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)

11 Dec 2024 · Energy sector

Meeting with Dan Nica (Member of the European Parliament) and ENEL SpA and

22 Oct 2024 · Debate on challenges and opportunities for the energy sector with focus on Romania and CEE Countries

Meeting with Stefano Grassi (Cabinet of Commissioner Kadri Simson)

14 May 2024 · Energy transition in SE Europe & Mediterranean

Meeting with Kadri Simson (Commissioner) and

9 Feb 2023 · Electricity market design.

Meeting with Kadri Simson (Commissioner) and

26 Oct 2022 · Joint purchasing options.

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy)

16 Jun 2022 · Discussion about RePowerEU and energy prices.

Meeting with Margaritis Schinas (Vice-President) and

15 Jun 2022 · Energy transition

Response to Review of Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency

21 Sept 2020

Please refer to the attached file.
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Meeting with Jos Delbeke (Director-General Climate Action)

16 Mar 2017 · EU ETS review