Green Fallacies: Renewable Energy in Europe

Monday 20 July 2015

In descending order of % share in 2013.

Biomass dominates

	% share of RE in gross final energy consumption		RE Primary production (kTOE)		% share of total RE, 2013
Country	2013 %	2020 TARGET	2003	2013	Biomass & waste	Hydro	Wind	Solar	Geo-thermal
Norway	65.5	67.5	10,277	12,458	10	88.7	1.3	0	0
Sweden	52.1	49	12,389	16,770	63.4	31.5	5	0.1	0
Latvia	37.1	40	1,728	2,137	87.8	11.7	0.5	0	0
Finland	36.8	38	7,887	9,934	88.2	11.1	0.7	0	0
Austria	32.6	34	6,130	9,466	56.2	38.1	2.9	2.4	0.4
Denmark	27.2	30	2,252	3,240	68.1	0	29.5	2.1	0.2
Portugal	25.7	31	4,241	5,621	55.4	21	18.4	2	3.2
Estonia	25.6	25	667	1,122	95.7	0.2	4.1	0	0
Romania	23.9	24	4,002	5,561	68.8	23.1	7	0.7	0.5
Lithuania	23	23	794	1,288	92.1	3.5	4	0.3	0.1
Slovenia	21.5	25	714	1,071	56.7	37	0	2.6	3.6
Bulgaria	19	16	952	1,826	65	19.2	6.5	7.5	1.8
Croatia	18	20	800	1,499	50.1	45.9	3	0.6	0.5
Italy	16.7	17	9,999	23,500	45.3	19.3	5.5	8.6	21.3
Spain	15.4	20	9,196	17,377	39.6	18.2	26.7	15.4	0.1
EU-28	15	20	104,094	191,961	64.2	16.6	10.5	5.5	3.1
Greece	15	18	1,538	2,487	43.1	21.9	14.3	20.1	0.5
France	14.2	23	15,521	23,073	64.5	26.3	6	2.1	1
Czech Republic	12.4	13	1,663	3,640	87.2	6.5	1.1	5.2	0
Germany	12.4	18	12,614	33,680	70.8	5.9	13.2	9.6	0.4
Poland	11.3	15	4,150	8,512	91.1	2.5	6.1	0.2	0.2
Hungary	9.8	14.65	906	2,074	90.3	0.9	3	0.4	5.4
Slovakia	9.8	14	651	1,467	67.3	28.4	0	3.8	0.4
Cyprus	8.1	13	48	109	16.3	0	18.3	64.1	1.4
Belgium	7.9	13	708	2,929	79.7	1.1	10.7	8.4	0.1
Ireland	7.8	16	235	766	41	6.5	51	1.5	0
United Kingdom	5.1	15	2,642	8,404	61.7	4.8	29.1	4.3	0
Nether-lands	4.5	14	1,625	4,294	86.3	0.2	11.3	1.6	0.6
Malta	3.8	10	0	10	27.4	0	0	72.6	0
Luxem-bourg	3.6	11	41	107	75.5	9.6	6.6	8.2	0

Source: Eurostat (online data codes: nrg_107a, t2020_31, and ten00081)

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