12/01/2021 (Agence Europe) – In 2019, renewable energy sources accounted for 34% of gross electricity consumption (including electricity consumption by power plant auxiliaries and transformers) in the EU, up 2% on 2018, according to figures published on 8 January by Eurostat. According to the EU’s statistical office, wind and hydropower technologies provided a large share (35% each) of this electricity, while the rest came from solar energy (13%) - the fastest growing - solid biofuels (8%) and other renewable sources (9%). The figures also show significant disparities between Member States, with a share of electricity from renewable sources approaching 70% for Austria (75%), Sweden (71%) and Denmark (65%), compared with 8% in Malta and 10% in Cyprus, Luxembourg and Hungary. See Eurostat figures: http://bit.ly/2K8JAqj (DG)