1.0 Overview

TWh, the highest annual value recorded (1). The wind sector continued to grow although at half the rate of 2009. Pres-ently Portugal accounts for an installed capacity of 3,987 MW, which accounted for 17 % of the country’s electric demand (Table 1). The renewable energy generat-ing capacity arose to 9,490 MW (2) and is now 53 % of the total installed capacity in Portugal. During 2010, the Portuguese government approved the PNAER- Pla-no Nacional de Acção para as Energias Renováve is setting the pace for contin-ued growth of the wind energy sector, aiming for an installed capacity of 6,800 MW onshore and 75 MW offshore (6, 5). 2.0 National Objectives and Progress 2.1 National targets The targets established within the Eu-ropean Directive 2001/77/CE of 3,750 MW by the end of 2010 (5) were achieved during the first half of the year. In December 2010, a total installed ca-pacity of 3,987 MW were already grid connected, alongside 543 MW that were already licensed (2). In April 2010, the Portuguese gov-ernment published the National Energy Strategy until 2020 (ENE2020) with the purpose of reducing by 25 % the depen-dence on foreign energy sources pursu-ing the commitments with the EU on climate change policies that included a national target of 8.5 GW for the win