Power utility PPC and the ministry of environment and energy are preparing a list of production units and mines that will be put on sale as part of Greece's agreement with its lenders and a European Court ruling for the abolition of PPC's monopoly in lignite production, sources said.

The labour union of Greece’s power utility PPC announced on Monday it will call strikes against the government’s decision to sell some of the company’s lignite plants, its president Giorgos Adamidis told the press, after a meeting with Energy Minister George Stathakis.  

Energy Minister Panos Skourletis appeared optimistic that the government's arguments on the non-selling of PPC's 17 percent will be accepted by Greece's lenders, in an interview with the Saturday edition of Efimerida ton Syntakton. "Today the electricity market is opening and a series of institutional changes towards this direction have been implemented.