Portugal
could
offer
both
excess
electricity
and
hydro-storage
capacity
for
renewable
power
from
countries
such
as
Germany,
Artur
Trindade
told
Recharge
at
EWEA
2013.
But
a
faster
expansion
of
wind
power
and
other
renewables
in
Portugal
is
being
held
back
by
the
grid
bottleneck
at
the
border
between
Spain
and
France,
which
he
suspects
is
protecting
the
latter’s
nuclear
industry.
“That
goes
against
the
spirit
of
the
internal
[European]
market,”
Trindade
says.
“The
French
government
is
not
complying
with
the
goals
that
we
have
for
renewable
energy,
because
it’s
not
letting
the
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