Sines

Wind and solar energy is set to ramp up in Portugal over the course of 2023, after the government approved new schemes that will deliver over a gigawatt (GW) of new power generating capacity. In Santiago de Cacem, near Sines in the south-west of the country, Iberdrola and Prosolia Energy have been given the green light to begin works on a €800 million 1.2GW solar farm that will ultimately …

50,000 tons of green hydrogen and 500,000 tons of ammonia per year are set to be produced at facilities near the Portuguese town of Sines through a new €1 billion scheme. The MadoquaPower2X project, which is expected to create more than 200 jobs, is being led by Portuguese firm Madoqua Renewables, in partnership with Dutch energy transition project developer and consultancy Power2X (Power2X) and Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ …

Start Campus, a joint venture of Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Pioneer Point Partners, has announced an investment of €3.5 billion to develop the Sines 4.0 hyperscaler data centre, located in Portugal’s Alentejo region, to connect Europe with the Americas and Africa. Claimed to be the largest renewable data centre campus in Europe with up to 450MW of capacity, Sines 4.0 will create 1,200 jobs and is designed to seamlessly …