Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover

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A wind farm at Barão de São João, south of Lisbon.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: August 9, 2010

LISBON — Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce Portugal’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects — primarily harnessing the country’s wind and hydropower, but also its sunlight and ocean waves. More