The Independent Power Transmission Operator SA (IPTO) is the operator of the Hellenic Electricity Transmission System, overseeing a network of more than 11,000 km across mainland Greece and an expanding portion of the Greek islands. With a mission to ensure the secure, efficient, and reliable transmission of electricity, IPTO plays a crucial role in Greece’s energy sector by supporting the operation of the Day-Ahead and Intraday Markets while also managing the Balancing Market with principles of transparency, equality, and free competition. The company operates 22 ultra-high voltage centers and 372 substations, driving significant investments of €5 billion by 2030 to modernize and expand Greece’s energy infrastructure. IPTO also operates through two subsidiaries, Ariadne Interconnection and Grid Telecom, with a combined workforce of 1,800 employees.
IPTO brings its extensive expertise in electricity transmission and smart grid operations to UNITY-6G, ensuring seamless integration of energy systems with next-generation communication technologies by supporting crucial aspects of sustainability and energy efficiency.
More specifically, as part of the Work Package “Architecture and Use Cases,” IPTO will collaborate with other UNITY-6G partners to define requirements, key performance indicators (KPIs), and functional specifications for UNITY-6G components. IPTO will also support a task dedicated to Digital Twin service development for sustainable networks by supplying power grid measurements through standardized APIs to facilitate energy-efficient resource orchestration and enhance energy market operations. Moreover, IPTO will contribute to the task on algorithms for sustainable integrated networks and energy-efficient enablers by providing smart grid data for algorithm training and supporting the integration and testing of components toward Proof of Concepts (PoCs). Finally, IPTO will participate in the definition of PoCs and final PoC demonstrations, ensuring the seamless provision of smart grid data to the decision engines of UNITY-6G.
IPTO will capitalize on the project’s results and outcomes to engage with telecommunication network owners as prosumers (consumers and producers), exploiting the provided flexibility services, contributing to the decarbonization of the power grid, and increasing its overall reliability and robustness.
IPTO is represented by several experts, including Ioannis Moraitis, Director, Dr. Efthimia Chassioti, Head of Section, Nikos Kanakaris, Researcher, and Nikolaos Tzanis, Researcher.
The UNITY-6G project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 101192650. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
This work has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).