EDP Renovaveis the world's fourth-largest renewable energy producer, has brought on stream a 202-megawatt (MW) solar energy park in central Portugal, its largest in Europe.

The Cerca project in the municipalities of Alenquer and Azambuja, north of Lisbon, has more than 310,000 solar panels and will have an estimated annual production of 330 gigawatt- hours (GWh), enough to supply 100,000 families, or approximately 1% of Portugal's population.

The company has increasingly invested in the development of solar projects at a global level, including large-scale but also small decentralized solar energy plants, and aims to channel half of its global investment by 2026 into solar power.

Source: Reuters

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