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APREN, Portugal’s renewable energy association, reveals that the Iberian Blackout last April prompted a year ‘marked by a decline in renewable energy incorporation, and an increase in natural gas production‘. The post Iberian blackout prompts slowdown in renewable energy installations appeared first on Portugal Resident.

APREN said a blackout forced greater use of gas-fired electricity generation, moving Portugal away from its climate targets.

The country, home to over 90 million people, is undergoing a 'national blackout'.

The chairman of E-Redes' board of directors, José Ferrari Careto, says that if management of the low-voltage network had been separated from the other voltage levels, responding to the blackout would have been more difficult. This option had already been on the table given the conditions under which the last Socialist government ...

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