Turning Beef Fat into Biofuel
PORTUGAL - To recover the waste of meat that is produced daily in the industry is the aim behind the R&D project "FatValue”, backed by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP),...

PM Opens New Solar Power Plant
PORTUGAL - Portugal can only reduce its dependency on imported energy and consequent debts by continuing efforts to develop renewables, Prime Minister José Sócrates said Tuesday after inaugurating...

Energy Globe World Award Winner
PORTUGAL - Open Renewables/Lobosolar, a Portuguese joint venture partner of SES 21 AG, Oderding, has won the renowned global environmental award: the "Energy Globe World Award" in the "Youth"...

Mitsubishi Partners with ACCIONA
PORTUGAL - Spanish company ACCIONA and Mitsubishi have signed an agreement giving Mitsubishi Corp a 34 per cent stake in Portugal's Amareleja (Moura) PV solar plant, which is owned by ACCIONA. ...

Offshore Wind Farm Using Floating Foundations
PORTUGAL – US compnay Principle Power has signed a deal with Energias de Portugal for the phased development of a deep-water offshore wind power project sited off the coast of Portugal using...

Wind of Change for Portugese Farm
PORTUGAL - EDF Energies Nouvelles is announcing the commissioning of the Arada wind farm in Portugal. This 112 MW facility comprising a set of four sub-farms with a single point of connection...

ACCIONA Solar Plant Commissioned in Portugal
PORTUGAL - ACCIONA Energy has put into service the world's biggest photovoltaic power plant in Amareleja, Moura, Portugal.

New Method for Making Diesel Fuel Uses Vegetable Oils
PORTUGAL - A Portuguese oil company, Galp Energia, plans to announce today that it is building a 6,500-barrel-a-day plant to make diesel fuel from vegetable oils using a method akin to refining...