According to the data issued by Ren -Energy Networks, wind energy production has just reached a new historical extent in Portugal, which is fueled by the strong winds in Martinho Cepression, which affected the country. This Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the daily production of wind electricity reached 112.4 GB, over 110.3 GB on November 24, 2024.
“Martinho also allowed depression with a maximum power of winds of 5080 megawatts at 12:15 pm, as it exceeded 5034 MW obtained at 1:45 pm on February 29, 2024.”
On Wednesday, the wind production closed 56 % of the country’s electricity consumption, which emphasizes the operator of the National Electricity Transmission Network. On the same day, all renewed production was responsible for providing 92 % of the country’s electricity needs.
Since the beginning of the year, renewed production represents 79 % of national consumption, 39 % divided into water, winds by 28 %, solar energy by 7 % and vital mass by 5 %. “These records confirm that Portugal has maintained a sustainable path in the gradual integration of internal renewable sources, while maintaining the basic goals of supply safety and quality of service in the national electrical system, even in the most negative situations like yesterday,” Rin concludes.
Last month, renewed production provided 78 % of Portugal’s electricity consumption. As it had already happened in January, the conditions were favorable to hydroelectric energy, at a rate of production possibility 1.28 (a historical average equal to 1). In the opposite sense, each of the winds and light conditions were particularly unfavorable, with the registration of the indicators concerned 0.71 and 0.83, respectively.
In the case of solar energy, the continuous increase in the permissible energy to maintain high symmetry (27 %), with the power connecting to the network for the first time at two ends of 2,800 megawatts.
