Proposed Allocation Plan for Offshore Renewable Energies (“PAER”)

 The Portuguese Government has set itself the ambition of achieving an installed offshore wind energy capacity of 10 GW by 2030 in the national maritime space of the Continent subdivision and achieve the targets set out in the Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality 2050. For these purposes, the Order of the Minister for the Economy, and the Sea no. 4760/2023, of 20 April, determines that the Directorate-General for Natural Resources, Safety and Maritime Services, the entity responsible for planning the national maritime space, should draw up a PAER, which will automatically update the Maritime Spatial Planning Situation Plan (“PSOEM”) with regard to create potential areas for commercial exploitation of offshore renewable energies.
In this context, the public consultation process of the PAER was promoted, which will be open until 12 December 2023.