Electricity from renewable sources reaches 47% in 2024

10/12/2025
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For the SAF platform, we have prepared a short material based on new data provided by Eurostat on green electricity production and renewable energy consumption in the European Union. The statistics show the EU’s progress in electricity production from renewable sources and which countries are the most successful.

Production of ‘green’ electricity

In 2024, 46.9% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources.

Among EU countries, Denmark had the highest share of renewables in its net electricity generation with 88.4%, coming mostly from wind, followed by Portugal (87.5%, mostly wind and hydro) and Croatia (73.7%, mostly hydro).

The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Luxembourg (5.1%), Malta (15.1%) and Czechia (15.9%).

renewables_in_electricity_generation_2024 — Source: Eurostat, citing nrg_cb_pem.

Wind and hydro power accounted for more than two-thirds of the total electricity generated from renewable sources (39.1% and 29.9% respectively).

The remaining one-third of electricity came from solar (22.4%), combustible fuels (8.1%) and only around 0.5% from geothermal energy.

Read the full material with data on renewable energy consumption in the EU on the SAF platform.

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