Energy in Portugal describes

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and

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production, consumption and import in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

. Energy policy of Portugal will describe the

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related to energy more in detail. Electricity sector in Portugal is the main article of electricity in Portugal.

Overview

Coal

Sines Sines () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The municipality, divided into two parishes, has around 14,214 inhabitants (2021) in an area of . Sines holds an important oil refinery and several petrochemical industries. It is also a popular ...

power plant (hard coal) started operation in 1985–1989 in Portugal. According to WWF its emissions were among the top dirty ones in Portugal in 2007. That coal power plant went offline in January 2021, leaving only one remaining coal power plant in the country, which closed at 7h15 on the 19th of November 2021.

Natural gas

Maghreb–Europe Gas Pipeline The Maghreb–Europe Gas Pipeline (MEG; also known as the Pere Duran Farell pipeline or Gazoduc Maghreb Europe GME) is a natural gas pipeline, which links the Hassi R'Mel gas field in Algeria through Morocco with Cordoba in Andalusia, Spain, wh ...

(MEG) is a natural gas pipeline, from Algeria through Morocco to Andalusia, Spain.

Renewable energy

Solar

Portugal has supported and increased the solar electricity (

Photovoltaic Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...

power) and solar thermal energy ( solar heating) during 2006–2010. Portugal was 9th in solar heating in the EU and 8th in solar power based on total volume in 2010.

Water

Portugal has also been using water power to generate power for the country. In the 2010s, a local company, Wave Roller installed many devices along the coast to make use of the water power.

Nuclear power

Electricity in Portugal

Transport

The sustainable strategy has been a shift from individual to collective transport within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area ( Metro Lisbon (ML), collective buses, Companhia Carris de ferro de Lisboa).

Global warming

According to

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the CO₂ emissions from energy consumption of Portugal were in 2009 56.5 Mt, slightly over Bangladesh with 160 million people and Finland with 5.3 million people. The emissions per capita were (tonnes): Portugal 5.58, India 1.38,

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5.83, Europe 7.14, Russia 11.23,

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14.19, Singapore 34.59 and United Arab Emirates 40.31.

References

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