A large number of planned renewable energy projects in Greece, with budgets totaling 1.5 billion euros and capacity totaling more than 1,500 MW, face an immediate prospect of coming to nought as a result of the inadequacies and omissions of public authorities, the Pan-Hellenic Network of Ecological Organizations (PDOO) said in a letter to the prime minister and senior ministers. The agency cited increasingly complex and time-consuming licensing procedures, delays in extending the grid of the Public Power Corporation, which cannot absorb the power produced by renewable sources, and a complete failure of authorities to publicize the multiple advantages of renewable energy production. PDOO (www.eco-net.gr) noted that not one wind power generator was installed during 2002 and that subsidized investment programes of such projects and energy savings, for which about 1 billion euros have been earmarked, have a zero absorption rate.