{"title":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Portugal","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/pt/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy","scope":"Portugal","category":{"cpvGroup":"093","label":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Portugal awarded 139 supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy through award notices on TED; the 56 of them that state a value (40.3%) add up to €196 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Portugal imported €923 million of goods in the customs headings matched to electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2716, 2844 and 2612; all buyers, not only public ones), down 23.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 41 companies have won 315 public supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in Portugal, in 111 award notices from 68 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Portugal.","The five companies that win most often hold 65.7% of all awards.","13.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":315,"awardNotices":111,"winningCompanies":41,"publicBuyers":68,"awardsWithValue":138,"awardedValueEur":484885543,"localAwards":315,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.6571428571428571,"singleBidAwards":35,"awardsWithKnownBids":266,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":38,"awardNotices":20,"awardsWithValue":23,"awardedValueEur":106151102},{"year":2025,"awards":139,"awardNotices":46,"awardsWithValue":56,"awardedValueEur":195859422},{"year":2026,"awards":138,"awardNotices":45,"awardsWithValue":59,"awardedValueEur":182875019}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2716","label":"Electrical energy"},{"hs4":"2844","label":"Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes, incl. their fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes, and their compounds"},{"hs4":"2612","label":"Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1207435306},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1043583000},{"year":2025,"valueEur":922545126}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Portugal — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €30.2 billion in 2025, 9.8% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":30198000000,"percentOfGdp":9.8,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":23.1,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Portugal\", https://cresques.com/markets/pt/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}