The decree transposing the EU's RED III directive sets a 49% renewables goal for 2030, with 75% in buildings and 29% in transport. Parliament's climate plan says 51%, and the government has not explained the gap. Portugal reached 36.3% in 2024.
Three resolutions let the ESPAP buy electricity, gas and road fuel for hundreds of public bodies in 2027, with spending capped below 230 million euros. A tender for leased electric cars followed a day later.
A decree-law in force from Saturday lifts the licence-free limit for gas bottle stores at filling stations to 1.560 cubic metres, saying the old cap left households short where stations are the main supplier.
The evaluation commission found Lightsource bp's Paiva wind farm would cut an ecological corridor and could drive the wolf from the region. It also said the 324-megawatt project was oversized for its grid connection.
Road fuel sales fell 2.7 percent on August 2025 and diesel 4.7 percent, DGEG figures show. Sector estimates point to a cut of about three cents a litre next week, despite a smaller tax discount.
Consumption reached 40,486 GWh, up 3.4 percent, as September heat lifted demand and wind output fell by a third. Net imports of 9,075 GWh were a record for the period.
The Constitutional Court says the rule used to value wind farms for IMI breaches the Constitution: Parliament never defined which properties use the cost method, or how it works. The ruling binds one case for now.
