Government must fulfill “commitment” with photovoltaic project

Speaking to journalists, Maria da Graça Carvalho pointed out that, “as a person”, she does not like the felling of any trees and asked investors to find locations for projects that do not involve cutting trees in the future. The minister stated that “there are several projects that come from the past, which were considered projects of national interest, [in relation to which] private investments were made and, therefore, the Portuguese State is …

Thousands of operators of photovoltaic systems in the urban region and in parts of the Düren district have been waiting for months for money and some information from the grid operator for fed-in electricity. Many of them will have to endure even longer.

The Federal Network Agency cites the strong photovoltaic installation and the exceptionally high solar radiation in the summer of 2024. The total volume of grid congestion management decreased by 12 percent in 2024. Costs were 17 percent lower than in the previous year.In the past year, grid operators had to take grid congestion management measures with a volume of 30,304 gigawatt hours – in the previous year there were 34,297 gigawatt hours. Th…