Energy consumption down by 8 per cent between 2006 and 2012 in the EU28

Luxembourg - Over the last two decades, gross inland energy consumption in the EU28, which stood at 1 670 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 1990, rose to a peak of 1 830 Mtoe in 2006 and then decreased to 1 680 Mtoe in 2012.

Between 2006 and 2012, gross inland energy consumption in the EU28 has fallen by 8 per cent. The energy dependence rate, which shows the extent to which a country is dependent on energy imports, was 53 per cent in the EU28 in 2012. The domestic production of primary energy was 794 Mtoe in the EU28 in 2012. Nuclear ener gy (29%), accounted for the largest share, followed by renewables (22%), solid fuels (21%), gas (17%) and oil (10%). These figures are issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Gross inland energy consumption fell in twenty four Member States between 2006 and 2012

The five largest energy consumers in 2012 in the EU28 were Germany (319 Mtoe, -9.2% compared with 2006), France (258 Mtoe, -5.3%), the United Kingdom (202 Mtoe, -12.2%), Italy (163 Mtoe, -12.0%) and Spain (127 Mtoe, -11.9%). Together these five Member States accounted for 64% of total EU28 energy consumption and for 77 per cent of the reduction in absolute terms between 2006 and 2012.

France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland and the Netherlands: the largest energy producers in the EU28

The five main energy producers in the EU28 in 2012 were France (133 Mtoe, 17% of total production in the EU28), Germany (124 Mtoe, 16%), the United Kingdom (116 Mtoe, 15%), Poland (71 Mtoe, 9%) and the Netherlands (65 Mtoe, 8%) which together accounted for 64% of total energy production in the EU28.

Poland (58 Mtoe, 35% of total production in the EU28) and Germany (48 Mtoe, 29%) were the largest producers of solid fuel in the EU28, the United Kingdom (46 Mtoe, 60%) of crude oil, the Netherlands (57 Mtoe, 43%) and the United Kingdom (35 Mtoe, 26%) of gas, France (110 Mtoe, 48%) and Germany (26 Mtoe, 11%) of nuclear energy and for renewables it was Germany (33 Mtoe, 19%), France (21 Mtoe, 12%), Sweden (19 Mtoe, 10%), Italy (18 Mtoe, 10%) and Spain (14 Mtoe, 8%).

Source: IWR Online, 18 Feb 2014