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Electricity prices in Portugal are below the European average for both domestic and industrial consumers, and the same applies to gas prices for industry. Only the price of gas reaching Portuguese households compares poorly with the bloc's average, ranking as the sixth highest.
Portugal’s gas transport and storage infrastructure is adequate for the size of the national market, although no European country has enough reserves to last several years without imports, according to The post Portugal gas reserves adequate for size of market, says REN appeared first on Portugal Resident.
A motion approved unanimously requests a scheduled network improvement plan from operators. Some parishes remain without fixed communications.
The Leiria City Council approved a motion today demanding the full restoration of power and communications in all parishes of the municipality, calling for structural improvements to these infrastructures.
News item at 16:00 about a village in the Batalha municipality that has been left without electricity.
The mayor of Oleiros said today that more than 70% of the territory is without mobile communications or experiencing instability, at a time when the number of people without electricity is “decreasing significantly”.
Communications were only restored in the city centre.
The first alert from Civil Protection reached Portuguese mobile phones on 27 January. A week later, some communities still have no power or water, and reconstruction work continues.
Firefighters have set up an improvised command post with a social support office. Only 30% of the municipality has electricity, but 100% has drinking water supplied by generators.
Most of the affected customers are in Leiria.
At 16:00, E-REDES reports that 147,000 customers are still without electricity.
E-Redes highlights that in Leiria 99,000 customers were still without power, in Santarém 23,000 and in Castelo Branco 9,000.
Rádio Observador accompanied an E-Redes operation in Alburitel, Ourém. The company's president, José Ferrari Careto, explains what is being done to repair faults on the network.
“E-Redes has done as much as it can in a very difficult situation,” said the Minister for the Environment and Energy, when confronted by journalists about the delay in restoring electricity to areas affected by Storm Kristin. This morning, 161,000 customers still had no access to electricity, 110,000 of these customers concentrated in Leiria. The minister ...
January recorded a 5.9% increase year-on-year and records were repeatedly broken, with 23 January marking the day of highest daily consumption.
January 2026 saw the highest electricity consumption on record in the national system, REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais reported today. Consumption reached 5.4 TWh (terawatt-hours), an increase of 8.1% (5.9% after correction for temperature and working days) compared with the same month of the previous year, when ...
The electricity supply in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha remained uninterrupted today, E‑Redes said, after the repair of a very high‑voltage pole, the City Council said; it had previously announced a suspension of the service.
The municipality of Penacova registered power cuts today in some villages due to the wind, while it is still assessing the damage from Storm Kristin, felt mainly in fallen trees and on the road network.
The action will take place from 10:00 and will continue for an indefinite period.
The president of Batalha Town Council says it is not yet possible to quantify the damage. Regarding the Government's measures, André Sousa calls them “a good start” but asks for more.
As of 03:00, nearly 160,000 customers are still without electricity, E-Redes reports.
João Jesus Ferreira says the radial and largely overhead design of the Portuguese electricity grid explains the scale of power supply failures. The electrical engineer calls for cleared corridors alongside the lines and structural changes to reduce the impact of extreme events.
Storm Ingrid left about 3,800 E‑Redes customers without power across mainland Portugal at 18:30, with the Aveiro district the most affected. The earlier peak of disruption reached roughly 20,000 customers in the North and Centre during the early hours. E‑Redes teams, working with protection and security authorities, are on the ground managing network constraints and carrying out repairs to restore supply.
Seixal has moved to secure legal assistance for residents and businesses affected by recent power cuts that have damaged households, disrupted economic activity and impaired essential services. The municipality’s intervention aims to help affected parties understand consumer and utility law, gather evidence of losses and pursue claims or compensation, while scrutinising the responsibilities of suppliers and the adequacy of emergency responses.
