The Açorean island of Graciosa has cut €2 million a year from its diesel fuel bill after a Danish renewable energy company and its partners financed and set up a wind farm and a solar energy park that now provide 70% of the island’s fuel needs.
HowardScott, the company behind the project, installed the intelligent system that blends together a 4.5 megawatt wind farm, a 1 megawatt photovoltaic solar park and a sophisticated 3.2MWh/6.0MW battery storage system so supply the island's grid.
A premiere in Portugal: a closed water and nutrient cycle; the production of strawberries and lettuce, pumpkins and tomatoes (and much more) and freshwater fish all year round. One supports the other, the fish support the growing of vegetables with their natural fertiliser, and the vegetables support the fish with treated, reusable water.
The water circulates from one tank to the next and is pumped back again, all day long, 24 hours a day, by solar-powered pumps. This is known as aquaponics, and this form of organic, urban agriculture is advocated and financially supported by the EU.
Following news of a massive solar project in eastern Algarve borough of Alcoutim, investors are reported to be ploughing €63 million into a similar venture at the western end of the region.
Bensafrim - still waiting for the €115 million state-of-the-art football village promised by various entrepreneurs over the years - is to receive two solar power generating centres, headed up by Portuguese company Hyperion, lead by João Talone, a former director of EDP.
The renowned marine photographer, Nuno Sá, is exhibiting many of his works in Olhão.
‘Oásis’ is being hosted in the city's municipal library until February 25th.
Now SHS Solar Solutions is the first in Europe to deliver TESLA POWERWALL 2 !! Since the release of TESLA Powerwall all hell broke loose. Now, already their new generation is launched, with more then double capacity.
SHS is the exclusively authorised reseller for Algarve.
Part of successive governments' devolution strategy has involved transfering the responsibility for ecological land (REN) to local councils which now are at liberty to reclassify these areas to suit local developers.
This increases the likelihood of corruption on a grand scale as former ecological land is relased for tourist development.
The Supermoon that will occur on November 14th, 2016, will be the closest a Full Moon has been to Earth since January 25, 1948.
A Supermoon happens when a Full Moon or New Moon coincides with the Moon's closest approach to Earth; also called perigee. A Super Full Moon looks around 12% to 14% bigger than its counterpart, the Micromoon.
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Everybody knows Tesla and their electric sports car, but not many people know the car was never built to create a car, it was made for the battery technology.
