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17 08 2022 | 16:02

‘It’s a human rights issue’: young adults take Portugal climate crisis to court

Cláudia Agostinho has been going to Pedrogao beach since she was a child. Back then it was a stretch of silver white sand sandwiched between pine trees and sea.

19 07 2022 | 12:34

Thousands evacuated as heat causes wildfires in Europe and north Africa

Thousands of people in Portugal, Spain, France and Morocco have been evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackle wildfires caused by this week’s heatwave, which has brought extreme temperatures…

19 07 2022 | 08:26

Europe heatwave: Deadly wildfires spread in Mediterranean

Thousands of firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires in Portugal, Spain and France, as a heatwave shows no sign of easing. In northern Portugal, a pilot died when his waterbombing plane…

12 07 2022 | 07:15

AFRICA: Builders Vision and Bloomberg invest $18m for coral reefs

Builders Vision and Bloomberg Philanthropies have committed US$18 million to the Global Coral Reef Fund (GCRF). The announcement was made on 28 June 2022 in Lisbon at the Sustainable Blue Economy…

05 07 2022 | 07:24

Why small cooperatives in Portugal produce solar energy

''Not only have we radically reduced our own electricity bills, we also earn around €5,000 ($5,290) a year with the energy that we feed back into the public grid," said Luis Besugo from the aid…

26 01 2021 | 07:56

EDP shutters Sines power plant in Portugal, country to be coal-free by November.

The Sines coal plant in Portugal went offline at midnight yesterday evening (14 January), leaving the country with just one remaining coal power station in operation, which is scheduled for closure…

24 02 2020 | 05:19

Portugal's Galp plans 10GW renewables gold rush.

Portugal-headquartered oil and gas company Galp is targeting 10GW of installed renewables capacity by 2030 as part of its strategy to diversify its business into more clean energy generation. The…

19 02 2020 | 13:04

2020 UN OCEAN CONFERENCE Lisbon, 2-6 June 2020.

Save our Ocean, Protect our Future The Ocean Conference, co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal, comes at a critical time as the world is strengthening its efforts to mobilize, create…

30 10 2019 | 07:33

World’s second floating wind farm sets sail for Portugal.

The first turbine from the WindFloat Atlantic project was successfully towed from Ferrol, Spain, towards its destination 20 km off the coast of Viana do Castelo in Portugal on Saturday (19 October),…

02 08 2019 | 06:38

Portugal solar auction attracts record low bids.

Bids to build utility-scale solar projects in the country have come in as low as €20/MWh, which would deliver some of the lowest priced power in the world to date Record low bids for solar PV…

01 07 2019 | 09:56

Europe’s biggest subsidy-free solar project’ nears completion in Portugal.

Chinese manufacturer Jetion Solar has supplied 221 MW of its polycrystalline modules to the scheme, which is being developed by Irish firm WElink Energy with state-owned China National Building…

05 06 2019 | 08:38

ProtoAtlantic puts marine tech to the test.

The ProtoAtlantic initiative has selected 10 international start-ups to test a variety of maritime technologies, including renewables, at several sites in Europe as part of the fast tracked product…

04 06 2019 | 15:06

EDP plans first MW-scale floating PV project in Portugal.

The Portuguese utility is seeking permission to deploy a 4 MW floating solar plant at the Alqueva water reservoir in southern Portugal. The solar array will feature around 10,000 PERC half-cell solar…

27 03 2019 | 07:08

Join us at the 21st Africa Energy Forum 2019 in Lisbon (11-14 June)

Africa Energy Forum 2019 The Africa Energy Forum (aef) is the global investment meeting for Africa’s power, energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors. What we deliver is simple:Energy. In One…

22 02 2019 | 08:52

Eight trends for the PV industry in 2019

IHS Markit’s analysts have mapped out what they are keeping an eye out for in the year ahead. Aside from higher installation figures, the number-crunchers predict a continued battle for multi-…

11 01 2019 | 11:55

ABB microgrid to support Portuguese island’s energy transition

Microgrid and energy storage technology to enable the island of Porto Santo to achieve clean-energy goals. ABB is supplying an ABB Ability™ enabled microgrid and energy storage system to Empresa de…