Installed capacity — Portugal
What Portugal could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Onshore wind | 5,401+35 | 24.4% |
| Natural gas | 4,395−24 | 19.9% |
| Pumped-storage hydro | 3,707 | 16.8% |
| Solar | 3,237+649 | 14.6% |
| Run-of-river hydro | 2,856 | 12.9% |
| Hydro reservoir | 1,789 | 8.1% |
| Biomass | 682−5 | 3.1% |
| Offshore wind | 25 | 0.1% |
| Other sources | 25−3 | 0.1% |
| Hard coal | 0 | 0.0% |
| Geothermal | 0 | 0.0% |
| Lignite | 0 | 0.0% |
| Nuclear | 0 | 0.0% |
| Oil | 0 | 0.0% |
| Waste | 0 | 0.0% |
How much ran at once
The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.
Of 22,117 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 12,171 MW — 55% of the fleet, on 26/01/2026, 19:00:00.
- Hydro 7,070/ 8,352 MW 85%
- Wind 4,846/ 5,426 MW 89%
- Gas 2,506/ 4,395 MW 57%
- Solar 3,816/ 3,237 MW 118%
- Biomass 376/ 682 MW 55%
- Other 32/ 25 MW 131%
The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.
How it changed, year by year
Total installed capacity, from 2025 to 2026.
- 2026 22,117MW +652
- 2025 21,465MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.
Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.