RAE analytics (13/5 update)

The N.3468/2006 article of Greek legislation has been published during October 2006 and reported that 200MW would be installed in islands and at least 500MW would be installed in central Greece.

Following this, RAE has been accepting applications for solar installations of 20-150kW through stages (applications accepted for geographical areas during specific time periods). Theoretically, RAE reports that an application must be evaluated in 10 days after it has been submitted (!) but the committee has seen 6836 applications submitted which makes evaluation a very time-consuming process. It can currently take from 6 months to a year for an application to be evaluated.

RAE posts updated statistics on their webpage (endless spreadsheets with details on all applications). As of May 13th, only 15% of solar project applications have been accepted (109.9MW), while applications that sum up to 9.6MW have been rejected and 732.8MW is the sum of all applications. The majority of applications are near 100kW but there are several near 150kW or lower than 50kW. The following chart illustrates the percentage of accepted, rejected and evaluated applications.