2025 data / 27 countries / 11 years
Half of EU electricity is renewable.
Only a quarter of its energy is.
The power socket tells one story. Include heating, transport and the rest of the energy system, and progress looks very different.
Eurostat renewable shares of consumption. Published data retrieved 14 October 2026.
100 dots = 100%. Filled dots round the share to the nearest whole percent.
01 / Change the denominator
Same countries.
Different race.
Austria leads on renewable electricity in 2025. Count all energy, and Sweden leads.
Switch the ranking, then select a country to follow its two paths. A bigger distance between the dots means a larger difference in shares, not an amount of missing energy.
Each row is a button. Values are electricity / all energy. EU aggregate is shown separately below.
Country notebook
02 / What the gap means
A cleaner grid is only part of the job.
In 2025, the EU renewable electricity share was 49.9%; the overall renewable energy share was 26.2%. That is a difference of 23.7 percentage points. In 2015, the difference was 11.8 points: both shares rose, but electricity moved faster.
Electricity is only one energy carrier. Fuel used directly for transport, heating and industrial processes also belongs in the overall measure. The non-renewable remainder includes nuclear as well as fossil energy, so this is not a carbon-intensity ranking.
These are Eurostat SHARES indicators under the Renewable Energy Directive, including its accounting rules. Wind and hydro electricity are normalised. A methodological change from RED I to RED II occurs in 2021. Country comparisons describe renewable shares, not a complete climate score.
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Sources
Eurostat: share of energy from renewable sources, nrg_ind_ren. Annual percentages, 2015 to 2025, EU aggregate and all 27 current members. Dataset updated 15 September 2026. Some 2025 values are provisional (p); flags are preserved in the table and CSV. 28 places x 11 years x 2 measures = 616 observed values. The EU number is the published aggregate, not an average of countries.
Energy in Europe, 2026 edition explains energy carriers and the consumption denominator. European Commission: electrification gives policy context. Data are embedded; this is a dated snapshot.