Portugal Working Group Tender

The working group was created to evaluate the technical and financial viability of the Pisao Dam located in the municipality of Crato Portalegre district. The said working group will compile the existing information and develop the study of the model of financing and management of the enterprise according to the order published in the Dirio da Repblica of April 9.The Group comprises a representative of the Deputy Minister and the Economy who coordinates and members of the Alentejo Regional Coordination and Development Commission the General Direction of Energy and Geology the guas de Portugal Group the General Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development the Development and Infrastructure Company of Alqueva and the Intermunicipal Community of Alto Alentejo.Within 60 days the Group is required to submit a report assessing the various existing preparatory studies proposals for new uses such as energy production with the creation of a photovoltaic water mirror or other investment and the valuation of the region in which it operates.The document will also have a cost-benefit summary analysis in the regional context a proposal for a financing model and project management and an action plan and deadlines for implementation.The first studies on the Piso dam and its agricultural value date back to 1957 in the Alentejo Valorization Plan of the General Directorate which indicated the need to build a dam that would store the flows of the Seda river.In 2010 the Multipurpose Hydraulic Utilization Study of Crato - its viability in irrigation public supply and the creation of a mini-hydropower plant estimated the cost of the work at around 100 million euros.Six years later all parliamentary groups in a resolution of the Assembly of the Republic considered the Piso Dam as a priority work and unanimously approved to recommend the inclusion of the project in the investment priorities in the National Irrigation Plan and in the National Program for the Territorial Cohesion.In all the studies carried out the Piso Dam was identified as fundamental to stimulate the economic and sustainable development of the area of influence of the project so it was considered urgent to rigorously evaluate all the documentation produced to date that can support a decision on the feasibility of construction of the enterprise making the specific knowledge already produced profitable.The order was signed by the Deputy Ministers and Economy Pedro Siza Vieira Planning Nelson de Souza Environment and Energy Transition Joo Pedro Matos Fernandes and Agriculture Forestry and Rural Development Lus Capoulas Santos.