On April 22, 2024, students of the 26th Experimental Junior High School of Athens visited the premises of Agios Dimitrios, PPC Power Plant at Ptolemaida Mines. The students had the opportunity to learn about LIFECO2toCH4 project, discuss with members of PPC and PPCR and visit the site where the mobile hybrid energy storage system will be installed. In the frame of living labs, Helena Partheniou from PPCR, presented the main objectives and scope of the LIFECO2toCH4 project and how it is related to both National and European goals for decarbonization and exploitation of renewable energy sources, as well as the basic idea of the operation of the mobile hybrid energy storage system. Dr. Christos Roumpos with the contribution of Mr. Tryfon Barbas from PPC, made a presentation of the activities of PPC in the Lignite Center of Western Macedonia and how LIFECO2toCH4 project is related with PPC’s strategy for the transition of the Western Macedonia Region to a post-lignite era.
The event was held in the presence of the project coordinator Dr. Apostolos Antoniadis (PPCR), while Petros Kostaridis (PPC), Emmanouil Sakalis (PPC), Evaggelos Papazisis (PPC) and people working in the Lignite Center of Western Macedonia were also present.
