Electricity and gas: 64.5% of industrial final energy use

In 2022 electricity (33.3%) and natural gas (31.2%) made up almost two-thirds (64.5%) of the EU’s industry sector's final energy consumption.
The sector still largely relies on fossil fuels, which directly accounted for over half (50.5%) of final energy consumption in industry in 2022. This is slightly less than that in 2021 (50.9%).
Electricity and natural gas were followed by oil and petroleum products (excluding biofuel; 10.8%), renewables and biofuels (10.6%), heat (5.6%), solid fossil fuels (6.3%) and non-renewable waste (2.1%).
Source dataset: nrg_bal_s
Chemical and petrochemical sector: one-fifth of all industrial consumption
In 2022, the EU’s industrial sectors which reported the largest shares of final energy consumption were chemical and petrochemical (1 892 petajoules (PJ) or 20.0%), non-metallic minerals (1 366 PJ or 14.5%), paper, pulp and printing (1 278 PJ or 13.5%), food, beverages and tobacco (1 156 PJ or 12.2%) and iron and steel (963 PJ or 10.2%).
The lowest share of total final energy consumption was recorded for the textile and leather sector, with 1.4% (131 PJ), followed by mining and quarrying (1.6%; 148 PJ) and transport equipment (3.2%; 302 PJ).
Source dataset: nrg_bal_s
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on Final energy consumption in industry
- Thematic section on energy
- Shedding light on energy in Europe – 2024 edition - Eurostat (europa.eu)
- Database on energy
Methodological notes
- For the full list of energy products, please refer to Annex A of Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 on energy statistics.
- In the article, the term solid fossil fuels refers to primary coal products, derived coal products, manufactured gases, peat and peat products and oil shale and oil sands.
- Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, coal products, natural gas, derived gas, crude oil, petroleum products and non-renewable wastes.
- Industry, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008, does not include the transformation sector or the energy sector.
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