The Municipality of Spata–Artemida made its first payment for 2026 to its LED street lighting contractors: two payment orders dated 16 October, €63,733.92 to THALIS Environmental Services and €63,733.90 to GLOBILENT, totalling €127,467.82. The funds relate to the April–June 2025 quarter, i.e. work that was completed 15 months ago. There is now a new name among the contractors.
On 7 October we reported that the contract would cost approximately 6.7 million euros over 12 years, funded by council tax, and that by that time the contractors had not received a single euro in 2026. This payment was made nine days later.
Work in 2025, payment in 2026
Contract No. 11398/19 April 2022 expires on 18 April 2034. Contractors are paid quarterly, based on invoices certified by an independent consultant, together with the energy savings achieved. The payment order records the entire course of the 11th quarter:
- 25 July 2025: the contractors submit the invoice.
- 30 October 2025: the independent consultant KGS Development certifies the invoice and submits the energy savings report.
- 5 November 2025: certificate of partial acceptance.
- 4 February 2026: minutes of the monitoring and acceptance committee.
- 30 July 2026: invoice.
- 16 October 2026: payment order.
After deductions, 8 per cent tax and a 0.10 per cent deduction, THALIS receives 59,570.65 euros. The payment is made from the municipality’s own funds, under the budget heading for the Cleaning and Street Lighting Department.
NRG is out, THALIS is in
From 2023 until November 2025, each quarterly payment was split into two almost equal payment orders: one to GLOBILENT and one to NRG Supply and Trading Single-Member Energy S.A. In the October payment, THALIS Environmental Services Single-Member S.A. takes second place. The supporting documents for the payment order show the following steps: notification of a change in the contractor’s company details and name on 23 January 2026, Municipal Council Decision 46/2026 to amend the contract due to the replacement of the contractor, and the signing of the amendment on 18 June 2026.
The quarter had been certified in November 2025, but the invoice was issued one month after the amendment was signed. The first quarter of the contract had been paid in April 2023.
How much has been paid
On the Diaugia website, we found 11 sets of payment orders issued to contractors from April 2023, one for each quarter up to June 2025:
- 2023: €338,434.12 (three quarters)
- 2024: €451,488.32 (three quarters)
- 2025: €583,107.30 (four quarters)
- 2026 to date: €127,467.82 (one quarter)
Total: 1,500,497.56 euros. For 2026, the Municipality has earmarked €877,342.12 for the contract as a mandatory expenditure (€797,621.69 in 2025). As of mid-October, less than 15 per cent of this amount has been paid. No payments have yet been posted for the quarters from July 2025 onwards, so further payment orders are expected in the coming months. Any amount not paid by 31 December will be carried forward as an unpaid liability to 2027.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, payment orders No. A/2285 (ADA ΨΧΨΖΩ1Χ-ΖΒΛ) and ADA ΨΚ8ΙΩ1Χ-ΕΔΓ, Diavgeia 16 October 2026; payment orders for 2023–2025 and commitment authorisations for 2025 (9ΞΟ3Ω1Χ-Ε9Ρ) and 2026 (91ΨΤΩ1Χ-853) on Diaugia.
