In 2007 more than 40pc of all electricity in Portugal had been produced by renewable. Solar power, wind power, hydro power, the power of waves, tide and sea currents is rapidly increasing country’s renewable energy basket.

Moura is the name of town, where the largest photovoltaic solar power plant in the world is being created.
It contains more than 240.000 solar panels for direct electricity production.

Portugal wants to be the world leader in replacing dirty energy sources, such as oil, gas, coal, and nuclear.

Manuel Pinho, the minister of economy of Portugal said: ‘The cost of doing nothing is very high.’ They want to use current record energy prices, threats of global warming and climate changes as a leverage to create brand new renewable innovative knowledge, technologies and products, which are going to create many new jobs and much more new income, especially by exporting this new technologies to other countries all over the world. Portugal has really reached a very good position in this field.

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European Union has set the target of 39pc as a share of renewable energy sources till 2010 for Portugal, however the country had reached 40.7pc in 2007, already. That means, that the Portugal is more than 3 years ahead of EU bureaucratic costly planning. New topic to think for the American President and the Britain’s Prime Minister, who are far behind in spite nice words and promises.