What Bordeaux is to fine wine Southern Portugal is to solar

• The French refer to it as ‘Le Terroir’, that perfect combination of sun and soil which allow grand cru grapes to grow and produce the top wines.

• If there was a Grand Cru class of ‘Terroir’ for solar energy, southern Portugal would be at the top.

• Everything here combines to make it the most desirable region in the world to host a solar farm:

- A supportive and encouraging government.

- Incredible hours of sun year round

- A landscape not suited to normal farming methods, too arid to grow crops or host animals.

- Large swathes of dry flat land.

- Very good electricity infrastructure in place with heavy cables dotting the landscape to ferry the power produced around the continent of Europe.

- Low and rural population with only small roads so limited environmental or ‘glint and glare’ issues with the panels.

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