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A new wind farm in Portugal has obtained environmental approval from the government - and once built it will become the country’s largest. Renewable energy company Iberdrola will integrate the plant into the Tâmega pumped-storage hydro complex in northern Portugal. The new wind farm will have a capacity of 274 MW, able to support the annual consumption of 128,000 homes. Iberdrola says they will introduce a range of measures to safeguard the environment around the new plant. Portugal’s largest wind farm gets the green lightIberdrola has obtained the second and final environmental permit for the...
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Europe was around seven per cent wetter than average in 2023 - during the world’s hottest year on record. Hot air retains more moisture, which increases precipitation and can cause widespread flooding. One third of rivers across Europe breached a ‘high’ flood threshold last year, according to the EU climate agency’s latest report. In some areas, fuller rivers strengthened the hand of one renewable: hydropower. Potential for run-of-river hydropower generation was above average across much of Europe for the year as a whole, Copernicus says. With this form of hydropower, a portion of the river is...
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Portugal generated an ‘historic’ 95 per cent of its electricity from renewables in April, according to the network operator REN. Renewable energy generation averaged just below that for the first four months of the year, covering 91 per cent of the nation’s power needs. It’s one national good news story within a great continental shift: fossil fuels provided less than a quarter of the EU’s energy for the first time ever last month. Ember, the clean think tank behind that assessment, also found that more than 30 per cent of the world’s electricity is now generated using renewables. “Solar in pa...
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