![]() The vendor warned me that there were 5000 pre-registrations and that we could experience difficulties applying, but at the time I wasn't expecting major problems. The pre-registration was made and all we had left to do was wait. Sometime in October of 2009, a new licensing period was announced to start on the 2nd of November at 10 a.m. The on-line licensing took place at a website with the ironic name RenovaveisNaHora.pt (Portuguese for “renewables on the hour”). ![]() submitting the system to a technical inspection by a certified third party.installing the infra-structure in the 120 days following the licensing period.applying on-line for the license during the licensing period.pre-registering on-line the household and the technical data.With the project consolidated on paper, we went into the licensing process. At the time we were expecting the system to generate from six times those figures during Summer to two times in winter. The electricity consumption at this household varies from 110 kWh in the summer to 150 kWh in the winter. The sunset side receives full radiation from 11 o'clock onwards in the summer, this being the side where we planned to set the panels. But being the highest in a radius of several hundred meters and at this particular latitude, it gets plenty of sunlight. The roof is divided in two sides, one facing sunrise and another sunset, which is not the best of settings. Beyond that, this house is already paid for, with no financial liabilities against it. The system was projected to be set at my mother's place, a house that has two stories and a roof shared with a single neighbour. When we started working on this project in 2009, this factory seemed to be setting the state of the art for industrial photo-voltaic cells, by then furnishing high end panel makers in Germany and Japan. The photo-voltaic panels we considered for installation are made in Portugal by a local manufacturer. this feed-in tariff is valid during the first 6 years of operation, comes down to 0.30 €/kWh from the seventh to the twelfth year and from then at standard grid prices.the feed-in tariff attributed to the first lot of 1000 permits is 0.65 €/kWh, decreasing with each new lot, down to a minimum of 0.31 €/kWh.grid connection permits are issued in packages of 1000 units, totalling 3.68 MW of new installed capacity the issuing time frame is open ad hoc and closes as soon as the 1000 licenses are attributed.each micro-production system can only feed to the grid up to 3.68 kW at any given time.to connect a photo-voltaic system to the grid a thermal water heating system must also be in place. ![]() ![]() Now legislation exists that sets a few rules for micro-generators to connect to the grid, including: In 2008, the national electric grid was opened to small investors, that up to that point had to rely solely on their own means to balance or store the energy they produced. Several programmes have been taken up, providing feed-in tariffs to projects licensed to large investors (mostly Wind and small-Hidro, with a few stakes on large scale Photo-Voltaics). A 10% of GDP foreign deficit is due in most part to the energy bill.Īfter successive failures (due to different reasons) to base the nation's electric generation on Nuclear, then Coal, and more recently on Natural Gas, governments started shifting focus to internal renewable energies by the late 1990s. Still, this nation imports 85% of all the energy it consumes, with 100% for fossil fuels. There is more sunshine only in the desert. Portugal is a lovely place at the westernmost tip of Europe, with a long Atlantic coast, rich orography, and clement weather.
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