In an exclusive interview with Sky News Arabia, Ana Fontura Gouveia, Portugal’s Minister of State for Energy and Climate, announced that according to European standards, Portugal is a leader in renewable energy, producing 100% of total electricity. 60% of power generation. The present age comes from renewable energy.
On the sidelines of the international OPEC meeting in the Austrian capital Vienna, the Portuguese minister said: “We expect to achieve the target of 80% of electricity from renewable sources by 2026 and 85% by 2030”.
The Portuguese minister also emphasized that the main goal of the Portuguese government’s interest in renewable energy is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, in addition to working to secure energy supplies, whether internal or renewable.
“When we increase the use of renewable resources, we increase the security of energy supply,” said Ana Fontura Gouveia, Portugal’s Minister of State for Energy and Climate.
“One of the goals of increasing renewable energy is to attract new industries to Portugal, thus creating jobs that respect the environment and the future,” the minister added.
“Our goal was to produce 20 GW, but today we are working on combining centralized energy production in distributed plants with decentralized energy production…of the 20 GW, 5 GW were produced,” the company said. Ana Fontura Gouveia, Portugal’s Minister of State for Energy and Climate, said that renewable energy and self-consumption enable cities, consumers and individual businesses to reap the immediate benefits of the energy transition.
Regarding the measures taken by the Portuguese government to achieve climate goals, she said: “We have simplified many procedures and removed some bureaucratic hurdles in providing production licenses, and at the same time, we are engaging by providing compensation and ensuring the participation of local communities. community so that we can implement these measures.” The pace of projects is faster, but at the same time, these communities will be able to absorb and embrace the benefits of the energy transition. “
“In Portugal, there are investment opportunities in offshore wind, green hydrogen…even lithium. We have the largest lithium reserves in Europe. We also have regulatory stability and policy stability because in Portugal people know that the energy transition is moving fast. With With political stability, we will have the ideal framework to attract investors and benefit from the clean, reliable and cost-competitive energy we already have … that is a great goal and the competitive advantage we have,” Gouvia said .
She also said that her country has different renewable energy sources… a mix of hydro, wind, solar and most recently offshore wind, and by combining all of these we are able to achieve a kind of stability.
Ana Fontura Gouveia, Portugal’s Minister of State for Energy and Climate, emphasized that storage is a challenge but can be solved with appropriate policies, and that when we incorporate 80% renewable energy production into the electricity mix, we must think carefully about how to store this energy.
The minister also said there was a need to make sure her country was well connected with partner countries and make sure we had reliable partners to make sure our system was indestructible.
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