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
