15/03/2024
Nikos Mantzaris was invited by Socrates Moutidis to the podcast of “Chronos Kozani”, where he explained why gas is a highly problematic “solution” for district heating in Western Macedonia.
14/03/2024
The Green Tank is one of the ten project partners of ARTEMIS which is aimed at accelerating the restoration of Posidonia seagrass meadows and exploring their ecosystem services in the Mediterranean.
11/03/2024
In the first two months of 2024, gas consumption increased by 30.1% compared to the same period in 2023. Greece fell to 23rd place in the EU-27 in terms of the voluntary reduction target (-15%) for the period April 2023-January 2024 and is 5 percentage points away from the target. The main source of gas imports is again Russia.
08/03/2024
Op-ed by Elena Psyllakou in the Greek edition of Huffington Post. The material was drawn from the “Youth Empowerment Workshop for the Just Transition” co-organized by Green Tank and the Association of Active Youths of Florina – OENEF, in Florina, in May 2023 as well as from The Green Tank’s participation in local events for the youth.
06/03/2024
Longread by Nikos Mantzaris for Inside Story and Macropolis.
05/03/2024
In January 2024, 1.28 million tonnes of CO2 were emitted, increasing by 6.2% from January 2023, decreasing by 40.6% compared to the five-year average.
04/03/2024
In January 2024, renewables had the second highest monthly production historically (2,207 GWh), just behind the first in August 2023 (2,254 GWh). Together with large hydro, they covered almost 60% of electricity production and almost 57% of demand. Electricity consumption increased by 6.6% compared to January 2023.
29/02/2024
The review titled “Energy Communities & Self-production in Greece and its Lignite Areas” by The Green Tank presents the more recent developments based on the data by the General Commercial Register (GEMI) and the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) up to December 2023
27/02/2024
Twenty environmental organizations in Greece ask the Greek Minister of Environment to vote “against” the change in wolf’s protection status.
22/02/2024
Ioanna Souka explains why there is a serious risk that the planned new LNG infrastructure will end up being stranded assets for a news report by Energy Intelligence.