Portugal’s Record Solar Month Puts the Spotlight on Grid Capacity

Four floating LiDAR buoys are now measuring wind and sea conditions off Viana do Castelo, Leixões, Figueira da Foz and Ericeira. They’re part of LNEG’s EOLOS.Mar programme — twelve-month measurement campaigns feeding real data into the sites earmarked for Portugal’s floating offshore wind zones, part of the push toward 10 GW of offshore leases by…

☀️ Solar’s next economic frontier isn’t a cheaper kilowatt-hour, a recent pv magazine piece argues, it’s finding a use for the kilowatt-hours the grid won’t take. Lazard’s 2026 LCOE+ report still puts utility-scale solar at $40-61/MWh unsubsidised. That was never really the constraint. ⚡ The constraint is timing. The cheapest solar hour is usually the…

The target was reached with renewable sources  and the energy mix was primarily composed of hydroelectric power at 28%, wind energy at 27%, solar photovoltaic at 10%, and biomass at 6%. Notably, our country operates without nuclear power plants, underscoring its commitment to clean and safe energy Beyond its energy achievements, Portugal is a true…

Spain committed €150 million this month to back Europe’s first fully green-hydrogen steel plant, a 1.5-million-tonne facility in Puertollano targeting a 98% cut in carbon emissions. https://fuelcellsworks.com/2026/08/05/news/spain-backs-green-hydrogen-steel-project-with-150m-investment-commitment Projects like this only work if the power behind them is bankable on an industrial timescale. A steel plant sized for 1.5 million tonnes a year needs firm,…

On 27 July, Spain’s day-ahead price hit zero at midday and €250/MWh by 10:30pm — same day, same grid. That swing is becoming the norm, not the exception. High photovoltaic output is pushing wholesale prices toward zero — sometimes below it — through the solar hours, while the evening ramp still leans on gas once…

Masdar closed $6.1bn in financing this week for the world’s first gigascale round-the-clock renewable plant: 5.2 GW of solar paired with 19 GWh of battery storage in Abu Dhabi. The financing is the headline. The more useful number, for anyone designing these systems, is the ratio behind it — just under four hours of storage…