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Cascais Powers Up: Solar Rooftops and Community Energy for a Brighter Future

In Cascais, sunlight is more than a backdrop — it is a resource, a rhythm, and now, a shared power. Over the past months, the city’s social housing buildings have been renewed and equipped with solar photovoltaic systems, implemented under the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the Municipal Budget marking a major step in the local WeGenerate journey.

With roofs gleaming under the sky, the community is preparing for a future powered by collective energy. The Cascais Energy Community platform has now passed its tender phase, and work is underway to build a database that will support collective self-consumption across neighborhoods, a model designed to be replicated and expanded to other municipalities in the near future.

“Everything is set to move forward,” said the project lead. “The contract for the digital twin is signed, and data collection from the first surveys is complete. We can finally start connecting all the pieces.”

The city’s Action Plan and Implementation Roadmap are already delivered, while technical upgrades continue — including plans to install an additional 20 kW of solar at the public pool, boost social housing capacity to 10 kW per building, and add 86 kW of battery storage to the most productive systems.

Despite a brief pause during recent local elections, the team has regained momentum. Just days later, the local circle — Cascais, LNEG, NOVA SBE, and Greenvolt Comunidades — came together to share progress and plan the next steps in the WeGenerate journey.

The project’s next phase will see energy flowing not only through cables and panels, but through a stronger sense of shared purpose — proof that sustainable transformation starts close to home.