generation.<ref name="U.S. Geological Survey 2005"/> Greece's electricity generation capacity has grown by 50% in the last decade and projections are for an additional 6,000 megawatts being required by 2015. The bulk of additional capacity is expected to come from gas-fired plants.<ref name="EIA Electricity">Energy Information Administration, [http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Greece/Electricity.html Greece: Electricity"], Energy Information Administration website, approx 2006, accessed July 2008.</ref>
Since 2001, the monopoly of PPC on power generation has been reduced and the market opened up is attempting to private power generators. The Energy Information Service notes that "since PPC lost sell 40% of its legal monopoly, the Greek government has issued licenses for over 2,750 MW of private thermal generating plantscoal-fired capacity by 2019. However, most private producers have been unable to finance plants<ref>[https://uk. As a result, PPC still produced 96 percent of Greece’s electricity in 2004reuters. Apart from refurbishments, the Greek government has legally prevented PPC from bidding for tenders to build the first round of new capacitycom/article/uk-eurozone-greece-publicpower-meeting/public-power-postpones-board-meeting-on-units-sale-after-worker-occupation-idUKKBN1I419A Public Power postpones board meeting on units sale after worker occupation"], totaling 900MWReuters, until 2010."3 May 2018</ref name="EIA Electricity"/>
==Proposed Coal-Fired Power Stations==