Energie rinnovabili in Europa nel 2023 hanno coperto il 24% dei consumi di elettricità. Record Svezia con 66,4%, vergogna Italia con 19,5%. I dati di Eurostat.
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%).
Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 requires ambitious measures to enable European citizens and businesses to benefit from sustainable green transition.
The use of renewable energy has many potential benefits, including a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the diversification of energy supplies and a reduced dependency on fossil fuel markets (in particular, oil and gas). The growth of renewable energy sources may also stimulate employment in the EU, through the creation of jobs in new ‘green’ technologies, which will be one of the cornerstones of the future Clean Industrial Deal.
Renewable energy sources include wind power, solar power (thermal, photovoltaic and concentrated), hydro power, tidal power, geothermal energy, ambient heat captured by heat pumps, biofuels and the renewable part of waste.
Share of renewable energy almost tripled between 2004 and 2023
The EU reached a 24.5% share of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources in 2023, around 1.5 percentage points (pp) higher than in 2022 and almost 3 times higher than in 2004 (9.6%). EU Directive 2023/2413 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources has revised upwards the EU’s 2030 renewable energy target from 32% to 42.5% (with an aim to increase it to 45%).
Therefore, EU countries need to intensify their efforts to collectively comply with the new EU target for 2030, which requires increasing the share of renewable energy sources in the EU’s gross final energy consumption by almost 20 pp.
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%).
