While I don't want to take anything away from Portugal, we should maintain objectivity. The Netherlands for example have a poor rating in regards to renewable e

While I don't want to take anything away from Portugal, we should maintain objectivity. The Netherlands for example have a poor rating in regards to renewable energy source. Looking back at Portugal, their main source is a hydroelectric dam and their second is wind. The netherlands have basically no elevation, so they literally can't make an (efficient) dam. The Netherlands also have extremely bad ratio between landmass/population, so there's quite literally little space for mass Wind turbines. Portugal also has the luxury of not sharing their coast, while the netherlands have to share the (small) northern sea with multiple countries (England for one) so they literally can't build wind turbines randomly in the sea without breaking a treaty. Netherlands and England as well are not exactly sunny countries thus solar is also inherently more inefficient than countries closer to the equator. Then there's general climate arguments (annual wind amounts and speeds) I think these are very important factors because the variable for a coal plant is the same, so a direct comparison between Portugal and The Netherlands and potentially other eu countries is somewhat apples and oranges.