EDP buys Polish solar enery company
“We are committed to growing within Polish market”, says executive director Without disclosing ‘the value of the deal’ (ie how much money has changed hands) EDP announced today that it
Manuel Pinho ‘unable to pay €6 million bail’ gets early Christmas cheer
Manuel Pinho, the former minister of economy currently under house arrest due to his inability to post €6 million bail, has received a shot of early Christmas cheer. After the
“Imprisoned in the Algarve” – Manuel Pinho’s €6 million bail surety the highest ever set in Portugal
Former economy minister from the Sócrates years Manuel Pinho is imprisoned in the Algarve today after Lisbon’s central criminal court judge Carlos Alexandre set the highest bail surety ever enforced
“Serious abuse of power”: lawyer for former economy minister dubs Manuel Pinho’s arrest “a sad day for Justice in Portugal”
After years of seemingly stop-start revelations and investigation, former economy minister Manuel Pinho – a key figure in the EDP rents corruption ‘scandal’ – has been arrested in Lisbon. Mr
Tax inspectors in concerted swoop’ to clarify legality of EDP’s €2.2 billion dam sale
Tax inspectors have today swooped on 11 offices and entities involved in EDP’s €2.2 billion December sale of six hydroelectric dams in the Mirandesa region of north eastern Portugal to
Sines green hydrogen consortium suffers new ‘surprise’
Less than two weeks since it was tipped to collapse entirely, the Sines green hydrogen consortium has lost two of its leading partners, energy giants GALP and EDP. According to
Green hydrogen “buzz” ignites Portuguese press
The ‘green hydrogen buzz’ has well and truly begun in the Portuguese press as the government sets its sights on becoming an exporter of this natural gas that promises to
EDP dam sale row: Portugal’s environment minister ‘caught out’ in yet another lie
Environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes appears to have been caught out in yet another lie in the scandal enveloping EDP’s €2.2 billion sale of six hydro-dams in the Mirandesa
Monchique fire 2018: EDP and employee formally accused of negligent arson
After being named suspects in February, EDP Distribuição and one of the company’s employees have been formally accused of negligent arson in the investigation into Monchique’s devastating summer wildfire of
EDP corruption case “delayed indefinitely by higher court”
The much-trumpeted EDP ‘corruption case’ – involving a former minister and the two head honchos of EDP itself- has been indefinitely delayed by the Constitutional Court, to the point, that