Portugal is up there with the big players in ensuring that the country has a high proportion of its energy from renewable sources.
While the EU average was 15%, Portugal saw to it that 25.7% of total energy used came from renewable.
This was up from 19% in 2004. At that time, the EU average was only 8.3%.
Sweden was the front runner, with an impressive 52% use of renewable energy. It and Bulgaria were the only two countries to exceed their goals.
It was followed by Latvia (37%), Finland (37%), Austria (33%) and Denmark (28%).
This means that Portugal rose to sixth place in the 28 member union, although it still has a way to go to reach its stated goal of 31%.
Scraping the bottom of the list were the UK where only 5% of its total energy was from renewable sources, the Netherlands with 4.5%, Malta with 3.8% and Luxembourg with 3.6%.
The UK was vastly short of its goal of 15%.
The countries which reached or were within 0.5% of their goal included Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Italy.
Furthest away from their goals were the UK, the Netherland, France, and Ireland.
But Portugal failed to come close to its sub-target goal of seeing that 10% of its transport fuels were from renewable sources. With a proportion of only 0.7%, it was considerably below target along with Estonia and Spain.
Sweden and Finland were the only two countries to reach 10% on transport fuels. Most of the EU countries were half-way there.
