He’s launched one of the largest green business initiatives in the world; now the mayor of one of Portugal’s smallest and poorest municipalities is spearheading an eight-country project to create communities run entirely on renewable energy.
José María Prazeres Pós-de-Mina started with his own municipality of Moura, one of the sunnier spots in the sunniest country in Europe. Noting that his region has ‘sunshine to spare – and even to sell’, Pós-de-Mina built what was at the time the world’s largest solar electricity generating plant. Moura is home to just 16,500 people, but the plant is expected to produce enough energy to power 30,000 homes when it reaches full capacity in 2010.
