Available energy from coal continued its downward trend during 2020 in the European Union, recording a fall of 18.3%, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office said in a statement published on 1 February.
Declining for the fifth year in a row, the use of coal fell by 40% compared to 2015. As a result, the share of coal in the EU’s energy mix barely exceeded 10% in 2020, compared to 25.7% in 1990.
Renewable energy and biofuels continued their upward trend. The share of renewables in the energy mix has been set at 22.09% in 2020 (see EUROPE 12873/8), compared to 19.89% in 2019.
Despite this increase, oil and gas fossil fuels remain the most important sources in the EU energy mix, with shares of 34.5 and 23.7% respectively in 2020.
Available energy from oil and oil products (excluding the share of blended biofuels) nevertheless decreased by 12.6% in 2020, reaching its lowest level since 1990. Natural gas experienced the same trend, but on a smaller scale, decreasing by 2.4%.
Meanwhile, nuclear power fell by 10.7% and reached its lowest level since 1990.
Read the data: https://aeur.eu/f/5u (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)