30/01/23 (Agence Europe) – Electricity generation from renewable energy sources increased by almost 5% between 2020 and 2021 in the European Union, data published by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, revealed on Friday 27 January. The share of renewables in gross electricity consumption, on the other hand, increased by only 0.1 percentage points, from 37.4 to 37.5%, due to an increase in electricity consumption caused mainly by the economic recovery. In 2021, wind and hydro power accounted for more than two thirds of renewable electricity generation in the EU (37% and 32%, respectively). The rest comes from solar energy (15%), solid biofuels (7%) and other renewable sources (8%). Renewables have a particularly high share in the gross electricity consumption of Austria (76.2% in 2021), Sweden (75.7%) and Denmark (62.6%). Malta (9.7%), Hungary (13.7%) and Luxembourg (14.2%) have the lowest shares. See data: https://aeur.eu/f/54u (DG)