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Approximately 75 percent of the country's electricity is sourced from thermal power stations, predominantly coal. According to the U.S. Geological Survey lignite accounted for approximately 65% of the fuel for the country’s power
generation.<ref name="U.S. Geological Survey 2005"/> Despite was the Greece's electricity generation capacity having has grown by 50% in the last decade and projections being are for a n addition an additional 6,000 megawatts being required by 2015, the . 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 to private power generators. The Energy Information Service notes that "since PPC lost its legal monopoly, the Greek government has issued licenses for over 2,750 MW of private thermal generating plants. However, most private producers have been unable to finance plants. As a result, PPC still produced 96 percent of Greece’s electricity in 2004. Apart from refurbishments, the Greek government has legally prevented PPC from bidding for tenders to build the first round of new capacity, totaling 900MW, until 2010."<ref name="EIA Electricity"/>
