&NewLine;<h2 class="wp-block-heading">PORTUGAL AN ECOLOGICAL COUNTRY</h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Portugal is banking on ecological innovations such as solar power and floating wind turbines to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Of all the European Union&comma; Portugal is the country that reduced its CO2 emissions the most in 2018&comma; with a drop of&nbsp&semi;9&percnt;&comma; compared&nbsp&semi;2&comma;5&percnt; on average in the rest of Europe&period; This makes Portugal an ecological&period; country;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This reduction is largely attributable to the boom in green energies in Portugal. <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-datasets/-/nrg_ind_335a"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Eurostat</span></a>&comma;&nbsp&semi;<strong>54&percnt; of the electricity generated in Portugal in&nbsp&semi;2016 came from renewable sources</strong>which makes it the third best performer in Europe, behind Austria and Sweden;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>For six&nbsp&semi;days in March&nbsp&semi;2018&comma; portugal even covered all its energy needs thanks to renewable energies&period; Their development&nbsp&semi;should also eventually enable Portugal to free itself from its dependence on fossil fuel imports&period; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On the other hand, electricity prices for households and industry are among the highest in the Union;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Portugal has also embarked on the development of innovative technologies&period; In Alto Rabagão&comma; in the north&comma; EDP is testing a floating solar power plant&period; 840 photovoltaic panels have been installed on a platform drifting on the artificial lake formed by one of the country's many hydraulic dams&period; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>All this is still experimental, but it has a number of advantages: if the tests are successful, it could help to develop solar energy, which currently accounts for only 2&percnt; of the energy mix&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/portugal-un-pays-écologique.jpg" class="wp-image-5373"/></figure></div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The largest floating wind power plant</h3>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Off the coast of Viana do Castelo&comma; on the border with Spain&comma; another floating wind project&comma; this one&comma; is due to go into operation in&nbsp&semi;2019&period; After more than five years of successful experiments&period;&nbsp&semi;<em>"The floating wind turbines have withstood extreme weather conditions&comma; including waves of over 15&nbsp&semi;meters&comma;</em>says José Medeiros Pinto, General Secretary of Apren, the Portuguese renewable energy association;<em>These tests have led to the development of the 25 MW Windfloat Atlantic project&comma; which will be the largest floating wind farm in existence&period;"</em>&nbsp&semi;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Choosing to develop floating offshore wind turbines is above all a way for Portugal to solve the problem posed until now by the great depth of its continental shelf&which prevents the installation of conventional offshore wind turbines&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Portugal is truly an ecological&period country;</p>&NewLine;
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