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Title: A new approach to desalination in the UN | Revista Retema
1 of March, 2023
The new monthly issue of the Retema Magazine includes a special report in which Eduardo Orteu analyses the new non-conventional water resources, with the focus on seawater desalination as a means to tackle water scarcity.
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08 Nov, 2024 
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10 Jan, 2025
Changes to the EU-ETS scheme: Analysis of Decree-law no. 101/2024 of 4 December
Decree- law no. 101/2024 redefines the EU-ETS, laying down new GHG reduction targets and driving the adoption of low- or zero-carbon technologies, it brings Portugal into line with the European Union's climate objectives.
10 Jan, 2025 
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09 Jan, 2025
Questionable constitutionality of Royal Decree-law approving a temporary energy levy previously rejected by the Spanish Parliament
By way of Royal Decree-law 10/2024 of 23 December for the establishment of a temporary energy levy during 2025, the Spanish government has ‘reintroduced’ a levy whose extension had just been rejected by Parliament, an unprecedented and dubiously constitutional move.
09 Jan, 2025
PUBLICATION
23 Dec, 2024
As alterações ao regime do CELE: Análise do Decreto-Lei n.º 101/2024, de 4 de dezembro
O Decreto-Lei n.º 101/2024 redefine o CELE, estabelecendo novas metas de redução de GEE e promovendo a adoção de tecnologias de baixo ou zero carbono, alinhando o País com os objetivos climáticos da União Europeia.
23 Dec, 2024
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05 Nov, 2024
Directive (EU) 2023/2413: the designation of ‘renewables acceleration areas’ in which projects are exempted from an environmental impact assessment
The new Renewable Energy Directive requires Member States to approve plans designating ‘ renewables acceleration areas’. The plans will be subject to strategic environmental assessment, but projects in these areas will be exempted from environmental impact assessment.
05 Nov, 2024
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23 Oct, 2024
CNMC Circular 1/2024: network access and connection of demand-side facilities
Access and connection of demand-side facilities (storage facilities, data centres, hydrogen plants, etc.) to the transmission and distribution networks will provide the electricity system with greater flexibility.
23 Oct, 2024
PUBLICATION
03 Oct, 2024
Royal Decree 962/2024: electricity production in offshore renewable energy facilities
Royal Decree 962/2024 establishes the open application procedure to which offshore renewable energy facilities that are not innovative or that are located in ports of national general interest are subject.
03 Oct, 2024
PUBLICATION
17 Apr, 2023
The manufacturer must compensate the purchaser for damage caused by NOx defeat devices in Dieselgate cases (CJEU, Grand Chamber, 21 March 2023, C-100/21, QB v. Mercedes-Benz)
To date, the latest decision of the EU court in the Dieselgate saga, and the most controversial in private law.
17 Apr, 2023
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30 Nov, 2021
Auction for the Reservation of Capacity for Floating Solar Photovoltaic Plants
The Official Gazette published the Ministerial Order No. 11740-B/2021, opening the competitive procedure for the allocation of a reservation of capacity of injection in the Public Service Electricity Grid for floating solar photovoltaic plants.
30 Nov, 2021
PUBLICATION
19 Nov, 2021
Amendment of the legal regime of the organisation and operation of the National Electricity System (Portugal)
The public consultation regarding the long-awaited draft Decree-Law that revokes the legal regulations applicable to the activities of generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity and the organisation of electricity markets (the "Draft Decree-law") is underway, and contributions may be submitted until 24 November 2021 through the Consultation - National Electricity System platform (consultalex.gov.pt).
19 Nov, 2021