Creative Commons

The study will examine the compliance of the Greek Target Model with the European Union legislation.Special attention will be given to the mechanism of “energy communities” and the regulatory issues raised by the conflict between consumption data and production data, as well as the regulatory limits of personal data processing (2016/679/EU). The clean energy transition is a primary goal of the European Union and a legislative framework has already been adopted by the latter, in order to promote its goal. In this direction, the rights of the consumers, the prosumers, the producers and the small producers will be enlightened, with an emphasis on the newly issued institution of the energy communities, as a means of supporting the active citizens’ participation in all energy markets. In addition, there will be an attempt to point out the legal limits up to which the commercial and personal data of the consumers, the prosumers and the small producers should be published by the RES aggregators, in harmonization with the General Data Protection Regulation. The implementation of the Target Model in Greece is a fact since November 1st 2020. Greece appeared to be the struggler in the European Union, concerning the fostering of the unified European model of the electricity market functioning. The incorporation of this framework in the Greek reality was expected to ultimately bring significant benefits for the security and the functioning of the energy market, along with the reduction of costs of energy and the minimization of the greenhouse gases emissions, which are incriminated for the climate disorder. Also, the creation of new types of participants and new transactions among the new actors in the energy field (prosumers, energy communities, peer-to-peer platforms) forced the establishment of new consumer’s rights, which will be mentioned thoroughly. On the other hand, the digitalization of the energy sector may offer new opportunities, while in the meantime it designates the complexity of the publishable data of the several actors, who are to be considered either as consumers or as professional vendors.