4th December 2019, Lisbon, Museu do Oriente, Auditório5th December 2019, Lisbon, Museu do Oriente, Sala Nova DeliWavEC Offshore Renewables organised its annual Seminar 2019 in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy in Portugal and Innovation Norway.
"Portugal Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2019… Decree-Law no. The increasing taxation of the energy sector is likely to create a strain on certain sector entities, and this is a far from amicable situation – as evidenced by news reports, according to which several entities in the electricity and natural gas sector are already reportedly challenging the payment of CESE in judicial courts.Decree-Law no.
The launching of the public nationwide (mainland Portugal) tender in 2020 is expected to introduce competitiveness and other changes to the low-voltage electricity distribution system.The government has announced the approval of the final version (pending publication in the Portuguese official gazette) of legislation introducing significant changes to the framework for self-consumption and creating the possibility of energy communities, in an effort to align the Portuguese electricity sector with European Directives and to comply with the PNEC 2030 targets of 47% of renewable energy consumption by 2030, which require that renewable energy account for at least 80% of all electricity generated in Portugal.Despite being foreseen in the Portuguese legislation since 2010, the framework for guarantees of origin has been subject to several amendments which have continuously shifted powers granted for the issuance of such guarantees of origin among different entities. Portugal’s national energy and climate plan for 2030 and Roadmap to Carbon Neutrality by 2050 lay out ambitious plans to decarbonise the energy sector. Order the print edition of Energy 2020 or read free onlineOrder the Portugal chapter of Energy 2020 in PDF format or read free online
Up until then and for smaller projects, the last resort supplier will temporarily undertake this activity.This is expected to change once the tender is launched and new entities take on this role.2019 was set to be the year for low-voltage electricity distribution tenders, with plans having been announced for a major nationwide public tender for the low-voltage distribution concessions. 8 This led to a solar auction taking place between June and July 2019 – the biggest since 2007 – with bids for 1,400MW of installed capacity.
This is mostly due to the subsea conditions and very deep waters near the coast, which do not allow for the installation of wind turbines similar in style to those which have been used all around the world. This technology will pave the way to similar projects being implemented, not just in Portugal but elsewhere, overcoming the technical difficulties faced in the past years which had left the country behind in the offshore wind race.A growing number of powerplants are approaching the end of their guaranteed remuneration term, following which they shall be placed under market conditions. 2 WavEC Seminar 2019 . 7
5 Ahead of that deadline, the company appears to be on track. The Portuguese Regulator had proposed that mainland Portugal be divided into three areas – north, centre and south – and that the tenders would be launched jointly by all municipalities in such areas, other than those which would undertake low-voltage electricity distribution on their own.Despite several concession agreements having reached or reaching their term in 2019, the public tender has not yet been announced and is likely to be postponed to 2020, with the municipalities either undertaking the activity after the term of the concession agreements, or allowing the current concessionaires to continue as such until then. APREN promoted in 2019 another edition of the APREN Award, an initiative that aimed to disclose, to the renewable electricity sector, academic dissertations carried out in Portuguese higher education institutions, contributing to technology transfer and knowledge dissemination between research institutions and companies. 5th December 2019, Lisbon, Museu do Oriente, Sala Nova Deli B2B Meetings . 120/2019, of 22 August, introduced certain amendments to the regime applicable to the installation of forest biomass powerplants, in an attempt to boost the implementation of projects using forest biomass, and simultaneously working towards better land management and planning to fight against forest fires which have ravaged significant parts of the country in recent years.As had already been announced by the Portuguese government, changes have been introduced to the overpowering regime in that the Portuguese regulator (ERSE) must evaluate each request in order to determine whether the envisaged overpowering may carry an adverse effect for the National Electricity System.As a large number of powerplants under the guaranteed remuneration schemes have opted in to the extension regime enacted in 2013 – which allowed plants to apply a floor and cap to their market remuneration for either the first five or the first seven years (depending on the conditions) after the end of their respective feed-in tariff periods – the amendments now introduced by this Order no. 3 Portugal has become widely known for its leading role in the promotion of renewable energy. The main focus of this committee (comprising representatives of all political parties with parliamentary seat) was the remuneration being paid to electricity generators, both renewable and non-renewable, and the potential accountability of political actors with influence over such energy “rents” being paid.The final report was approved in May 2019 and brought to the Portuguese Parliament in July 2019.
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