In the first half of 2026, average electricity prices for households in the EU decreased by 2.2% to…
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The Oil Coordination Group met again today to take stock of the current oil market situation. EU supply…
As the days grow hotter, air conditioning is playing a larger role in how people cope with the…
In 2024, EU households used 9.54 million terajoules of energy, a slight decline (-0.2%) from 9.57 million terajoules…
In 2024, the EU’s industry sector used 8 835 petajoules (PJ) of energy, an 8.1% decrease compared with…
In 2023, transport activities accounted for 32% of the final energy consumption in the EU, slightly up from 31% in 2022.
In the first half of 2025, household gas prices in the EU fell to €11.43 per 100 kWh from €12.44 in the second half of 2024, dropping by 8.1%. This signals a return to the seasonal fluctuations of gas prices, characteristic of the period before the 2022 energy crisis.
In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024.
The EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 900 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq) in the first quarter of 2025, a 3.4% increase compared with the same quarter of 2024 (871 million tonnes of CO2-eq).
In 2023, the total final energy consumption in the services sector in the EU was 4 937 petajoules (PJ), down 1.9% compared with 2022 (5 069 PJ).
