Energy transition accelerates in Portugal – World Energy Day
In the past, electricity production reached 3533 GWh, with 68.6% coming from renewable energies and only 31.4% from fossil energies.
On the 29th of May, the World Energy Day is celebrated, data created with the aim of motivating a greater civil and political awareness about the maintenance of energy savings, energy transition and encouraging the use of more friendly renewable energies. of the environment highly, replacing the polluting and harmful fossils for life on Earth.
With a carbon neutral goal set for 2050, portugal seeks to reduce GHG emissions by between 45 and 55%, increase energy efficiency by 35%, ensure energy in the province from renewable sources by 47%, introduce energy ENFONIENTE DE SOURCES RENEWAVIS EM 47% ensure a percentage of 15% of electrical interconnections, according to data from Portugal Energia.
For its part, the Energy Observatory revealed that in the 2010-2020 decade, domestic energy production in Portugal grew by 20.5% and, in the same period, energy dependence dropped from 76.1% to 65.8% (value very close to the 65% target set for 2030 in the National Energy and Climate Plan).
In 20.20, atypical year confinements and which recorded the years of age, peaked by power generation, the country still became familiar with the adoption of 66557 power generation, the value still the Observatory. In turn, in April 2022, 4009 GWh of energy were consumed, which represents an increase of 6.2% compared to the 3744 GWh of 2021. Non-renewable thermal energy (27.2%) and wind energy (28, 1% ) were the main sources of supply, with the country’s import balance standing at 18.7%.
Last April, electricity production reached 3533 GWh, with 68.6% coming from renewable energies (with wind and hydro in charge) and only 31.4% from fossil energies, reveals the Energy Observatory.
REPowerEU advances in Europe
The recent war in Ukraine has brought the energy sector an urgent need to adapt. In this sense, the Commission presented as REPowerEU plan lines that aim to make Europe independent of Russian fossil fuels before 2030, very general lines for European gas.
This is a plan that integrates a series of biological energy measures to respond to Europe’s rising prices and rebuild as gas reserves in Europe23, as well as accelerate the implementation of renewable gases and renewable energies. It is intended to double the amount of green hydrogen.
The EC plans to increase, and even increase, the applied efficiency, up to the attention to 600 G for photovoltaic energy and 480 GW for wind energy. Already solar thermal energy, to be integrated with geothermal energy, to be applied to geothermal energy in urban systems that are mandatory at the time of energy from the installation of solar panels, at the same time of energy implementation, which is supported by heat, and must also implement energy from the installation of solar panels in the new buildings. buildings, whether public and commercial, or residential.
The EC set a more ambitious target of efficiency matter30, rise to %%, up to % of domestic production, as a domestic production target, for the 130 million tons of energy, the greener they are in efficiency in the 13.0 million tons, energy, also until 2030. Research in this field will still count on around 200 million euros in support.
After all, the REEU contemplates an investment of 210 million euros over the next five years to become independent from Russian energy while managing to meet the environmental goals to which it sets itself.
Ideas that help save energy
- Use energy-saving light bulbs in your home instead of traditional incandescent ones; and avoid having and equipment turned on, when they are not lights;
- Before buying new equipment, check the energy label, and buy the most efficient one (Equipment Class or higher);
- devices on the button, not just on the remote, because your devices in standby mode continue to consume energy;
- Avoid closing the refrigerator door and checking the constant state of the rubbers;
- Separate the different environments;
- Use as washing machines, always with a full load and low temperatures.