AREAM – Agência Regional da Energia e Ambiente da Região Autónoma da Madeira
AREAM is the regional energy and environment agency of Madeira, a non-profit association of public utility dedicated to promoting sustainabl…
Solar Power
Cleanwatts builds energy communities, Coopérnico finances citizen-owned renewable power and off-grid projects use solar across Portugal. Together they show how solar works at household, community and project level.
Projects in this focus
Solar power in Portugal
Portugal has more sun than almost anywhere in Europe and, for a long time, less rooftop solar than countries with half the light. That has changed quickly: self-consumption rules and renewable energy communities turned the panel from an off-grid curiosity into ordinary household infrastructure.
Coopérnico was the first citizen energy cooperative in the country and finances projects with its members' money. Cleanwatts builds and operates energy communities from Coimbra, and its 100 Aldeias programme takes them into villages. Comunidade CER organises the paperwork side, and Malogica Solar installs across the north.
Panels are the easy half; what you do at night is the other. See also battery storage, energy efficiency and off-grid systems. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.