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Data extracted in June 2019.

Planned article update: July2020.

Highlights

Supply of electricity in the EU remained stable (+0,2 %) in 2018 compared with 2017.

Production of electricity production from hydro increased in the EU in 2018 by 11.4 % compared with 2017, while the production of electricity from conventional thermal decreased by 8.3 %.

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Evolution of electricity supplied, EU-28, 2000-2018 annual data and 2013-2018 monthly cumulated data

This article takes a look at the most recent statistics (2018) monthly cumulated data and provisional 2018 annual data as voluntaily supplied by Member States on the volumes of electricity that have been produced and supplied at the level of the European Union (EU-28), the Euro area (EA-19) and at the level of individual countries.

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Production of electricity

As illustrated by Figure 1, the supply of electricity in the EU-28 remained stable (+0,2%) in 2018 compared with 2017.

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Figure 1: Evolution of electricity supplied, EU-28, 2000-2018 annual data and 2013-2018 monthly cumulated data
(GWh)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_cb_e), (nrg_105m)

After an increase of 0.9 % in 2017, the volume of produced electricity at EU-28 level remained stable (+0,2 %) in 2018 compared to the preceding year.

Table 1 shows the production and supply data for EU-28 and Euro area (EA-19). Tables A to M (see: Source data for tables and graphs on this page) show the production and supply data for all individual EU Member States and other countries that reported data, by using monthly cumulated data for 2018 (2016 and 2017 data are annual figures).

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Table 1: Electricity Statistics, EU-28 and EA-19, 2016-2018
(GWh)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_ind_peh), (nrg_cb_e), (nrg_105m)

Malta (+18.4 %), Croatia (+15.0 %), Finland (+3.7 %), Czechia (+2.6 %) and France (+2.5 %) were the Member States that recorded the largest increases in net electricity production in 2018. Other Member States that recorded small increases (less than 1 %) were Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Portugal. Against this trend, net electricity production decreased most significantly in Lithuania (-20.3 %), Belgium (-6.6 %), Slovakia (-7.7 %), Germany (-7.6 %) and Latvia (-7.5 %).

As regards the structure of electricity production in 2018 (Figures 2, 3 and Table 1), the production of conventional thermal electricity decreased by 8.3 % in the EU-28 in 2018 and accounted for 45.9 % of the total production, while the production of electricity by nuclear power plants decreased (-0.3 %) and accounted for 25.5 % of the total. The electricity production in the EU-28 by wind increased by 5.0 % and represented 12.2 % of the total production, while the production by hydro which includes pumped hydro (not necessarily of renewable origin) increased by 11.4 % and represented 11.8 % of the total production. The electricity production by solar increased by 3.9 % and represented 4.0 % of the total production.

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Figure 2: Electricity production by source, EU-28, 2018
(%)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_105m)

As mentioned above, electricity produced by nuclear power plants decreased by 0.3 % between 2017 and 2018. In 2018, the largest shares of electricity produced by nuclear power in the 14 EU Member States that have nuclear facilities to produce electricity were observed in France (71.3 %), followed by Slovakia (58.2 %), Hungary (49.9 %), Sweden (41.6 %), Belgium (39.0 %), Bulgaria (36.7 %), Slovenia (35.9 %), Czechia (34.5 %) and Finland (32.5 %). In Germany, where it was decided to close down their nuclear power plants by the year 2022, the share of electricity produced by nuclear power is 12.6 % of the total.

Electricity supplied to the market

The volume of electricity supplied to the market is defined as the total net volume of electricity produced minus export plus import minus the electricity absorbed by pumping (pumped storage). As illustrated in Figure 1, the supply of electricity in the EU-28 remained stable (0.2 %) in 2018 compared with 2017. When looking at supply statistics at national level, the most important increases were observed in Latvia (+6.4 %), Estonia (+5.1 %), Malta and Finland (+2.2 % each) and Czechia and Portugal (+2.1 % each). Small increases of less than 2 % were observed in 12 other Member States. The largest decreases in supply figures were observed in Germany (-7.8 %), Slovakia (-4.6 %), Bulgaria (-4.1 %), Belgium (-2.6 %) and France (-2.0 %).

In 2018, the aggregated EU-28 imports of electricity increased by 2.8 % and exports decreased by 1.9 %.

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Figure 3: Breakdown of electricity production by source, 2018
(%)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_105m)

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Market share of the largest generator in the electricity market (ten00119)
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