08What gets built, and how fast?
How much of our energy is electricity
What share of the energy a country uses arrives as electricity, and how fast is that share rising?
Of all the energy homes, businesses and transport use across the EU27, the share that arrives as electricity was 23% in 2024, up 0.8 points in 5 years (Eurostat energy balances).
Luxembourg rose fastest, 3.8 points in 5 years to 18% in 2024.
The highest share is Norway's, 52% in 2024.
Electricity is a minority of the energy most countries use; the rest is fuel burned where it is needed. A clean grid can only decarbonise the share that runs on it. How far along is each country, and where is it moving fastest?
Why the slope matters more than the level
Final energy is what homes, businesses and transport use once the power sector's own use and losses are taken out: the petrol in the tank, the gas in the boiler, the electricity in the socket. Whatever a grid is made of, it decarbonises only the share that runs on it, which is why every side wants this line to rise faster.
A country that electrified its heating decades ago starts high and moves slowly; one switching cars and boilers now moves fast from a lower base. The second chart ranks the change over the span stated on it, so the fastest movers show first whatever their starting point. Energy is counted where it is used, so the energy in imported goods is counted abroad.
The countries high on the line already heat and travel with electricity, often on hydro; the countries low on it still heat with gas and oil. The share says nothing about how clean that electricity is. That is the Carbon Intensity view's question, and the two pages belong together: one is how much of the energy runs on the grid, the other is what the grid is made of.
How these numbers are made: Electricity's share of final energy.
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