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Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, with 120 wind turbines, has been completed and switched on in Portugal. France’s EDF Energies Nouvelles said the final tranche of the Ventominho wind farm, with 240MW of total capacity and a single point of connection to the grid, is now fully operational.
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Portugal’s largest wind farm business has been sold to a consortium led by private equity group Magnum Capital for €1.15bn. The portfolio, which has been sold by Babcock & Brown, comprises around 515MW of operating wind farms and a further 156MW of wind farms under construction. According to
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Vodafone has begun using ‘micro-generation’ wind turbines to supply electricity for its mobile network masts in Portugal. Combined with other energy efficiency programs started two years ago, Vodafone says it is achieving reductions of 15-20 per cent in total energy consumption and CO2 emissions by its base stations. The wind
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What is claimed to be the world’s first commercial wave power project opened off the coast of Portugal this week. The €9m Aguçadoura project is the first of a series experimental wave energy projects by the Ondas de Portugal (Waves of Portugal) consortium, which is made up of Babcock
