Read today's Portuguese stories delivered to your email Entitled Quinta de Santo António Hotel and Winery (cellar and hotel at Quinta de Santro António the project won a prize from the “World Architecture Festival” (WAF) in the “Leisure” category and is now a candidate for “Future building of the year” “This is the only architecture studio in Portugal competing at the WAF” This project is considered “a unique opportunity to write a new page in the extraordinary millenary history of the Douro River in Portugal” part of the Alto Douro region classified as World Heritage by the [United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization] UNESCO The press release explains that the design of the hotel and the winery is the result of "a careful reading of all the natural and built elements" that characterize this landscape which becomes evident "in the scale of the intervention and in the palette of colours and materials" “a contemporary and harmonious building was created capable of doing justice to its environmental Based in Porto and internationally awarded the Sérgio Rebelo atelier follows sustainable construction and production models We appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay for our services but if you are able to we ask you to support The Portugal News by making a contribution – no matter how small You can change how much you give or cancel your contributions at any time Send us your comments or opinion on this article Reaching over 400,000 people a week with news about Portugal This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page COLTF-O) has lofty plans to bring the next gold and tungsten mines to Portugal a country perhaps best known for its fortified wines The junior’s motto is “A gold company created by investors for investors,” and the.. 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To learn more, click more information Accept Close Floating solar panels will be installed on six of them in the future to produce even more green energy for the country You can use our filter to find relevant topics Alternatively our search function or the overview of articles can help you out An ever-growing number of floating solar farms is being built in Europe. After all, unused real estate is valuable, and the price of this technology is on the decline. For now this development has reached its high point Portugal’s first national floating PV module auction fetched negative bids this past April breaking the record for the lowest price in this segment What this means is that the energy companies will actually pay to generate electricity instead of receiving a subsidy these bids must be viewed against the backdrop of extremely high prices on energy exchanges the war in Ukraine is driving fossil fuel and electricity prices up to all-time highs Portugal has again proven to be hallowed ground for solar power The country set the record for the lowest price of ground-mounted solar energy back in 2020 As reported by the en:former, Portugal possesses major potential in the renewables business The country is investing heavily above all in solar and wind in its quest to become carbon-neutral by 2050 Take solar for example: Whereas the country had just over a gigawatt (GW) of installed capacity by 2020 Germany’s RWE recently announced the construction of a 40-megawatt (MW) ground-mounted solar farm on domestic soil The facility is scheduled to become operational in 2023 The floating solar projects accounting for some 183 MW awarded in April will contribute to the energy transition November 2021 saw Portugal’s Directorate General for Energy and Geology (DGEG) hold the country’s first floating solar auction The call for bids was for seven projects with a maximum total capacity of 263 MW which can be implemented on seven dam reservoirs These seven artificial lakes only represent part of Portugal’s hydropower capacity A total of 17 hydroelectric power stations with an aggregate capacity in excess of 7 GW make up a larger portion of the country’s energy mix especially in the rainy winter months Three further hydropower plants on the Tamega and Torno rivers are under construction Only the location at the Castelo de Bode dam reservoir for which tenders were invited for projects maxing out at 50 MW just a single bid was submitted for this lot without an agreement being reached with the bidder All of the other projects will match the auctioned capacities: Cabril (33 MW) Salamonde (8 MW) and Vilar-Tabuaço (17 MW) a combined 183 MW were awarded in the tender procedure Two of the auctioned projects were awarded via a 15-year contract for difference (CfD) Energy company EDPR placed a record bid of minus 4.13 euros for Alqueva A negative tender means that the company will pay about four euros in compensation for every megawatt hour (MWh) its farm generates over the established 15-year period The 33 MW project at the Cabril dam reservoir was awarded to France-based Voltalia for a tender offer of 41.03 euros The plant is scheduled to be commissioned by 2026 Most of the other projects were awarded under the national power grid compensatory scheme the network operator receives a fixed grid connection fee for every MW of power produced by the projects The average sum per megawatt hour and year is 47,700 euros A winner alongside EDPR was Endesa Portugal landing the third-largest project (42.5 MW) The planned floating solar farm is expected to go online as soon as 2023 and by coupled to a wind farm and a battery storage system Portugal-based Finerge secured three of the auctioned projects: Paradela Another reason why companies are willing to pay to generate electricity besides the high prices on energy exchanges is quite simple: guaranteed grid connections Low availability as well as complicated and long-winded approval processes in Portugal make it difficult for power generation asset developers to drive their projects projects are ensured a fixed grid connection capacity granted network capacity exceeds project capacity This enables the winning companies to implement additional renewables projects using the same grid connection EDPR claims the company is expecting enough grid connection capacity for 154 MW of green energy only 70 MW of which is covered by the floating solar farm EDPR intends to use the remaining 84 MW for a hybrid system consisting of 14 MW of PV and 70 MW of wind output Another factor that makes the invitations to tender attractive is the period for which the grid connections are guaranteed Although the auction contracts have a term of 15 years the DGEG awards the winning companies grid capacities for 30 years on completion of the 15-year contractual term every company has another 15 years to continue generating electricity at normal market conditions We encounter energy everywhere – at home, on the street, in the office and on the workbench. But what exactly is energy? How and from what is it made? How is it stored, transported and converted? The questions abound, answers to which are provided by this blog – exciting, snappy and always up to date. Learn more Portugal coach Fernando Santos has named a 25-man squad for the World Cup playoffs Santos has called up Sporting centre-back Gonçalo Inácio Braga’s Ricardo Horta and Wolves goalkeeper José Sá while Sporting midfielder João Palhinha’s absence will also cause debate Rafael Leão (Milan) and Cédric Soares (Arsenal) are rewarded for excellent recent displays at club level “This is one of the most important moments since I became Portugal coach,” said Fernando Santos who took over as manager of the Seleção in 2014 The focus is total to win and get to the World Cup.” Portugal host Turkey at the Estádio do Dragão on 24 March they qualify for the final against either North Macedonia or Italy the winners of which will be at the Qatar World Cup while the losers watch on from afar Portugal squad for FIFA World Cup 2022 playoffs Injuries to goalkeeper Anthony Lopes and midfielder Rúben Neves and a positive Covid-19 test for Pepe led to three changes to the originally selected squad Pepe may be available to play in the final next Tuesday Meanwhile U21 coach Rui Jorge announced the Portugal squad that will host Iceland on 25 March in Portimão in the Algarve then travel to play Greece on 29 March as part of their Euro 2023 qualifying campaign The big news is the call-up of Fulham’s exciting rising star Fábio Carvalho Midfielders: Afonso Sousa (Belenenses SAD) Portuguese fire-fighters are battling just one wildfire after some 650 firefighters managed to contain two other fires blazing in the country’s north since Friday More than 500 fire-fighters and 75 soldiers used over 100 vehicles three helicopters and a waterbombing plane to contain a fire raging in Sao Pedro do Sul civil defence services said on its website Three people suffered slight injuries on Saturday and a fireman was killed on Monday when a truck transporting him Another fire raging since Friday in Tabuaco Civil defence services said firefighters were now battling only one “significant” fire burning since Saturday near the national park of Peneda-Geres in the northwest region of Braga please register for free or log in to your account.