Informative Note

Retroactive refund of state grants for renewable energy generation with feed-in tariffs

04/11/2016

Order no. 268-B/2016, of 13 October, issued by the Secretary of State for Energy entered into force on 14 October and is highly detrimental to those private investors who have benefited from state grants over the years.

This legislation imposes, with immediate effect, an obligation for power plants benefiting (or having benefited) from guaranteed remuneration for energy generated from renewable sources supplied to the public grid (known as «feed-in-tariffs») to refund to the Portuguese State part of amounts received to the extent they also benefited from other types of state grants (or incentives) to promote and develop projects to generate power from renewable energy, including cogeneration.

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