The PV market in Portugal is expected to grow significantly in the next few years driven by an ambitious target and very favourable incentives for grid-connected systems. Cabinet Resolution 63/2003 established a goal of 150 MW of PV to be installed by 2010; this intent has been underpinned by a new Decree-Law establishing a range of feed-in tariffs for renewable electricity, which came into force in January 2005. The new tariffs are crucial for the development of the first phase of the world’s largest centralized PV power plant (64 MW) planned for installation in Moura, South of Portugal. At the other end of the scale, the feed-in tariff has already stimulated a large increase in requests to the Portuguese authorities for grid interconnection of systems up to 5 kW.

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