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Dear Diana,

Thank you for your comments. They touch on an important objective of the Algarve Energy Park: to create a sustainable community based on the latest forward looking principles and technologies. This would include, for example, urban metabolism - the ability of urban structures to adapt to new sustainable technologies, and improved energy efficiency of buildings through usage of design, building and materials technology.

Overall, we are targeting for the overall project to be at least carbon neutral, if not carbon positive through the planting of historically indigenous tree and shrub species on the large land surfaces available to us.

We are confident that the experience derived from this approach will allow many novel approaches to community and building energy management that will significantly support efforts to reduce CO2 production linked to our current stock of energy inefficient buildings.