Our hydropower assets
Our hydropower plants have a total installed capacity of 1.7 GW and generate 3.2 TWh of renewable energy per year on average.
At Movhera, we believe in a strong local anchorage. We strive to have a positive impact.
Our renewable hydropower portfolio in the North of Portugal is composed of six plants, Miranda, Picote, Bemposta, Baixo Sabor, Feiticeiro, Foz Tua. They generate on average 3.4 TWh of green energy, and deliver flexibility services to the electric system, enabling the development of interruptible green energy in the country. Three plants are recently commissioned pumped storage units. The three others are run-of-the-river plants built in the fifties and sixties, and recently repowered.
Supplying baseload energy at all times.
Three recently renovated cascade run-of-the-river plants which use continuous river flow and supply base-load energy. From upstream to downstream: Miranda, Picote, Bemposta.
Offering flexibility through pumped storage.
Three recently commissioned pumped storage power stations, which operate water transfer between upper and lower reservoirs on a daily basis: the Baixo Sabor / Feiticeiro system, and Foz Tua.
Miranda
Miranda is a run-of-the-river hydropower plant with a concrete buttress dam on the Douro, located in the municipality of Miranda do Douro. The plant has a total net capacity of 363 MW.
Baixo Sabor
Baixo Sabor is located on the Sabor river, a right tributary of the Douro, in the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo. The powerhouse was built underground and comprises two installed Francis turbines of 72 MW each.
Picote
Completed in 1958, Picote was the first dam constructed by Portugal on the Douro river located in the municipality of Miranda do Douro. The power station has currently a total net capacity of 433 MW.
Feiticeiro
Located in the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo, 14 kilometres downstream from Baixo Sabor, Feiticeiro began operations in 2015. Feiticeiro hydropower plant, gravity dam and a reversible power station, has a total installed capacity of 38 MW.
Bemposta
Bemposta is a concrete arch dam and a run-of-the-river power plant, located in the municipality of Mogadouro, near to the Spanish border. It has a total net capacity of 439 MW.
Foz Tua
Foz Tua is established on the Tua river, a tributary of the right bank of the Douro, in São Mamede de Ribatua, municipality of Alijó. Foz Tua is a multipurpose power station composed by two reversible Francis turbines with a total installed capacity of 274 MW.