Portugal Energy News

MEGAJOULE|Inovação released results of the ongoing Windie™ Validation Programme. In its commitment to provide an increasingly better service to its clients, MEGAJOULE|Inovação performs continuing validation studies of its CFD results.

Members of the Tunisian National Agency for Energy Conservation will visit MEGAJOULE to attend a 3 day renewable energy seminar in January. MEGAJOULE invited several representatives from industry, government and organisations to speak at the event.

The Steering Committee of the European Technology Platform for Wind Energy (TPWind) has selected Miguel Ferreira, executive board member and founder of MEGAJOULE to continue as member of the TPWind for the second call period.

This year MEGAJOULE supports SOCIALIS, an association for social solidarity. Besides the donation by the company each employee has contributed goods to offer a basket of necessities to the institution, from baby nappies to milk and baby shampoo.

Sea For Life introduces WEGA (Wave Energy Gravitational Absorber). The WEGA device is an articulated suspended body, semi-submerged, attached to a mount structure, which oscillates in an elliptical orbit with the passage of the waves.

MEGAJOULE|Inovação announced new developments in the CFD code WindieTM. WindieTM can now be fully integrated with traditional micrositing tools like Windfarmer, Wind Pro and WasP.

MEGAJOULE is planning an event for the Global Wind Day on June 15 in the harbour of Fortaleza, Brasil in cooperation with MEGAJOULE’s partner Braselco, Martifer Renováveis, All about Events and the Brazilian Wind Power Association ABEEOLICA.

PORTO, PT – MEGAJOULE Inovação officially launches Windie™, the latest tool for wind flow simulation over complex terrain.

To encourage the use of renewable energy, the Portuguese Ministry of Finance has launched a funding scheme enabling all home owners to install solar hot water systems at up to half-price.

The Hitachi-Cobra Consortium assigned SGS Portugal to manage and supervise all quality-related activities during the whole upgrade process of the Sines Thermal Power Plant in Portugal.

"Rock in Rio 2008 – Escola Solar" submitted by Better World, Lobosolar and ADENE wins the Energy Globe Award -Youth category, competing with the projects "Latent heat buffer" - Austria and "Ecological Lifestyle via the Environmental Diary" - Japan