Observatório Fotovoltaico is mapping PV projects across Portugal, with information on installation size, year of commissioning, exploration type, and developer. The free tool already includes around 1,000 projects, corresponding to 60% of the country's total installed capacity. Contact online >>
Observatório Fotovoltaico is mapping PV projects across Portugal, with information on installation size, year of commissioning, exploration type, and developer. The free tool already includes around 1,000 projects, corresponding to 60% of the country''s total installed capacity.
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Observatório Fotovoltaico, a Portuguese service platform for the solar industry, has developed a free, web-based, interactive map of PV projects in Portugal.
Rodrigo Silva, the project leader, told pv magazine that he recognized that so far the public had access to two kinds of information: official statistics from the Directorate General for Energy and Geology (DGEG) or the national association for renewable energy (APREN), offering limited data on installed capacity, or scattered details from companies promoting their work through various online platforms like websites and LinkedIn pages.
Silva launched the "PV Map" in March 2023. He already manually mapped more than 1,000 PV projects across the country, corresponding to roughly 60% of Portugal''s total installed capacity, and is now looking for companies to volunteer information on projects not yet mapped.
The map can currently be filtered by region, project developer, and exploration type, including self-consumption, energy communities, large-scale, feed-in-tariff, mini-generation, microgeneration, PPA, and off-grid. When selecting a particular project, it also shows information about its installation size, year of commissioning, and media links.
A lot of the identified projects still have missing data, but Silva hopes the process will be sped up as more companies volunteer their information. A partnership with DGEG or APREN would be a welcome development for the project, which aims to facilitate access to quality information about solar in Portugal.
The platform launched a new feature this week and has other announcements in the pipeline.
"I noticed that as the number of projects increased, it became more difficult to have an overview of their applications," said Silva. "So, I found a way to classify the entity that benefits from solar production according to their sector of activity. This gives companies insight into the sectors where they have the most or fewer customers, as well as political entities insight into how the adoption of this technology evolves in the various sectors.”
The provisional results, currently published as infographics on LinkedIn and as exclusive reports to partnering companies, show that the food industry benefits the most from solar production, followed by the mineral industry, education, and the textile industry.
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The Portuguese government has raised its 2030 solar target by 11.4 GW. It now hopes to cover 85% of its electricity mix with renewables by the end of the decade.
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Portugal has announced revisions to the 2030 National Energy and Climate Plan (PNEC) under the slogan “a greener country, sooner.” It now hopes achieve climate neutrality by 2045.
The updated energy strategy aims for 80% of electricity in the country to be renewable by 2026, and 85% by 2030. The revised plan sets a target of 20.4 GW of operational PV systems in 2030, with 14.9 GW for utility-scale plants and 5.5 GW for distributed generation.
The government said that solar plant deployment should not exceed 0.4% of national territory and has called for compensation and community involvement. The new plan also includes improvements to authorization processes, designated areas, regulatory frameworks for distributed generation and energy communities, and new financial incentives.
Portugal''s cumulative PV capacity hit 2.59 GW at the end of 2022, outpacing the growth of other renewable energy sources. The latest statistics from Portugal''s Directorate General for Energy and Geology (DGEG) also show that the country added just 118 MW of new solar capacity in the first four months of 2023.
BloombergNEF predicts that Portugal''s solar installations will reach 1,363 MW by the end of 2023, a substantial increase compared to 890 MW last year.
Governments around the world are ramping up their efforts in a bid to reduce the use of fossil fuels for the benefit of the environment – and solar power is among the alternatives with the greatest potential.
As it stands, there are a number of large and medium-scale solar "farms" in operation globally. Portugal has a particularly ambitious plane to overhaul its energy production, and is already home to a number of exciting projects to support this.
Between 2021 and 2030, the country plans to increase the energy it draws from Renewable Energy Sources (RES) to from 30.6% to 47% – with a goal of increasing the electricity produced this way to a huge 87% from its current 54%.
The country''s relatively sparse population provides a number of locations in which large ground-mounted solar farms may be developed – but that has not stopped the country from pursuing exciting projects on water, too.
Compiled by the home sales specialists over in the UK Property Solvers are twenty of the biggest solar projects currently operating in Portugal.
The Central Fotovoltaica Riccardo Totta, named after the father of the owner of the land on which it sits, is now Portugal''s largest photovoltaic plant, producing 219 Megawatts of power.
It was inaugurated in October 2021 and was developed by WElink Energy/Solara4 in partnership with China Triumph International Engineering Company.
Another ground mounted photovoltaic plant from the same partnership: WElink Energy and CTIEC, Ourika completed its development in 2018.
Producing 80,000 MWh/year and with some of the highest irradiation levels in Europe, the plant was strategically sold to Allianz insurance in October of its inaugural year.
This 2500 sqm floating solar panel platform on the Rabagão river has a capacity of around 220 kWp and an estimated annual production of approximately 300 MWh.
It was launched in late 2016 and demonstrates an exciting marriage between solar and hydro-generated power.
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