Dec 27, 2024

Renewables account for 24.5% of EU energy use in 2023

In 2023, 24.5% of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 1.4 percentage points compared with 2022. This share is 18 percentage points (pp) short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.6 pp from 2024 to 2030.

Sweden ranked first among EU countries, with two-thirds (66.4%) of its gross final energy consumption coming from renewable sources in 2023. Sweden primarily relied on solid biofuels, hydro and wind. Finland followed with 50.8%, also relying on solid biofuels, wind and hydro, while Denmark came in third with 44.9%, with most of its renewable energy sourced from solid biofuels and wind. 

The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Luxembourg (11.6%), Belgium (14.7%) and Malta (15.1%).  

Source dataset: nrg_ind_ren

This information comes from data on energy from renewable sources published recently by Eurostat. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on renewable energy.