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In July 2020, in the wake of judicial action against Isabel dos Santos, the company's controlling shareholder, and the freezing of her assets in Portugal, the Portuguese government nationalised 71.73% of EFACEC to ensure its short-term viability, with the goal of reprivatising the company in the short-term, if feasible. [24]
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. [10] In 2021, 36% of Portugal’s total installed power generation capacity and 23% of total power generation came from hydro power. [11]
The Ministry of the Environment and Energy (Portuguese: Ministério do Ambiente e Energia) is a Portuguese government ministry. The Ministry was formed in 2013 by narrowing the scope of the Ministry of Agriculture. [2]
EDP was founded as Electricidade de Portugal, E.P. by the Portuguese government though the Decreto-lei n.º 502/76 published on 30 Jun 1976, [4] merging 14 former energy companies that had been nationalised by 1975 in the aftermath of the regime change in 1974, of which the most significant had been the Companhia Portuguesa de Eletricidade (CPE).
Galp Energia, SGPS, S.A. is a Portuguese multinational energy corporation, headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal. [4] Galp consists of more than 100 companies engaged in every aspect of the oil and natural gas supply, hydrocarbon exploration and production ; refining , trading, logistics and retailing; co-generation and renewable energy .
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (National Laboratory of Energy and Geology) is a Portuguese public R&D institution in the fields of energy and geology. It was created in 2007 by the merger of the former National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation with several smaller research and regulation bodie.s [ 1 ]
Amorim Energia BV operates as a subsidiary of Amorim Investimentos e Participações, holding of the Amorim Group. [ 1 ] The Portuguese investor Americo Amorim controls, directly or indirectly, 55% of Amorim Energia, the other 45% is owned by the offshore holding Esperanza , owned by the Angolan state oil company Sonangol and the investor ...
Wind power' is a major source of energy in Portugal. At the end of 2020, wind power capacity in Continental Portugal was 5,456 MW. [1] In 2020, wind power represented 23.7% of total electricity generation. [2] The record of wind power generation was achieved on November 22, 2019 with 103.1 GWh produced [3]