renewable energy
By Manuel Armindo
PORTUGAL
Natural electricity…
disadvantages
• Very difficult to get/capture (I don’t
know when…
• Very difficult to manage (very high
energy in small periods
So, Houston, we have a problem…
Meanwhile, in Portugal…
• We are working to get a better world
• And also reduce the energy independence…
50,4% off our all energy, is from
petroleum!!!
Where?
Our renewal energy
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Water (rivers)
Wind
Sun
Geothermal
Waste/disposables
Waves
Translated by GOOGLE
Rivers (Dams)
• We call it “white gold” (opposite to “black gold”
from petroleum)
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Wind (farms)
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SOLAR POWER PLANTS
AMARELEJA - MOURA
BRINCHES - SERPA
Rosário - Almodovar
Ferreira do Alentejo
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Geothermal
AZORES
Pico Vermelho (10MW, 72GWh/year)
Ribeira Grande(13MW, 98.5GWh/year)
41% of the electrical
energy in the island, is
from this two power
plants!!!
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Waste/disposables
• Burning the remains from woods (leaves and
others)
• Burning the remains from the paper industry
(shells from trees)
• Burning waste/garbage from our houses
• Disposables from pigs industry (faeces) or
lanfills, by decomposing in to methane and
burning this gas.
Remains from woods (MORTÁGUA)
9 MW (63 GWh / year)
Burning the remains from the paper industry
(CONSTÂNCIA)
Urban waste (LIPOR II – MAIA)
26MW (169MWh (year)
Methane from faeses (ABRANTES)
140kW (700 MWh/year)
Methane from lanfills
(VILA NOVA DE GAIA)
1MW ( 8GWh/year)
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Waves
• This was experimental in our country
• All of them don’t work now, they are
broken because the sea is very
violent and ruthless
Cachorro – AZORES 400kW
Technology: OWC oscillating water column
Aguçadoura – Póvoa de Varzim
Tecnology: Pelamis 3x750kW (2250MW)
Póvoa de Varzim
Tecnology: Archimedes Wave Swing 2MW
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Questions?