The exploitation of electricity production projects from Renewable Energy Sources for the social and economic development of remote communities. The case of Greece: An example to avoid

Dimitris Al. Katsaprakakis and Dimitris G. Christakis

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, vol. 54, issue C, 341-349

Abstract: Since 2009, an anarchic policy has been followed by the investors regarding the submission of a large number of applications in Greece for the construction of electricity production projects from Renewable Energy Sources (R.E.S.). Applications and licenses without any strategic design, usually of extremely large size in relatively small insular territories, often violating several environmental or cultural constraints defined in the relevant legislation. Applications and licenses that have been submitted without informing the local communities, neglecting the existing industrial, agricultural or domestic activities, the land properties and, consequently, provoking the common sense and reverting the generally positive common attribute about R.E.S., recorded in Greece before 2008.

Keywords: Rational R.E.S. development; Environmental impact protection; Local rural communities development; Wind energy; Wind parks; Photovoltaic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.029

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