The Ministry of Environment and Energy announced having fully completed the Recovery and Resilience Plan targets under its responsibility, with total investments exceeding 1.8 billion euros. Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho's ministry states that the investments covered 51 targets in structural areas of environmental and energy policy, from energy efficiency and combating energy poverty to water management, bioeconomy, renewable gases, energy storage, decarbonization of public transport, and blue economy.
In the area of energy efficiency and combating energy poverty, approximately 556 million euros were executed, supporting more than 85,000 dwellings through the Sustainable Buildings Support Program, with 20,000 Efficiency Vouchers and 53,600 E-LAR vouchers paid. In public and service buildings, over two million square meters were renovated.
In water management and water resilience, 106 million euros were executed, concentrated in the Algarve Regional Water Efficiency Plan, where 204 kilometers of urban water supply networks were intervened, above the minimum target of 125 kilometers. Interventions were also completed at four wastewater treatment plants, and the water transfer capacity between Sotavento and Barlavento increased to 600 liters per second.
In energy transition, the PRR benefited from investments of approximately 267 million euros in hydrogen and renewable gases and 180 million euros for electricity grid flexibility and energy storage. In decarbonization of public transport, 952 zero-emission buses were achieved, surpassing the target of 860 vehicles. In the blue economy, the Blue Poles Network was completed with the construction of the Smart Ocean poles in Peniche, Leixões I, and Algarve.
