Electricity from renewable sources reached 47% in EU in 2024

In 2024, 47.4 per cent of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, up by 2.6 percentage points (pp) compared with 2023, the bloc’s statistics agency Eurostat said on March 19.

Among EU countries, Denmark had the highest share of renewables in its net electricity generation with 88.8 per cent, coming mostly from wind, followed by Portugal (87.4 per cent, mostly wind and hydro) and Croatia (73.8 per cent, mostly hydro). The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Malta (15.1 per cent), Czechia (17.5 per cent) and Cyprus (24.1 per cent).

Wind and hydro power accounted for more than two-thirds of the total electricity generated from renewable sources (39.1 per cent and 29.9 per cent respectively). The remaining one-third of electricity came from solar (22.4 per cent), combustible fuels (8.1 per cent) and only around 0.5 per cent from geothermal energy.