{"id":448160,"date":"2026-03-19T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/19\/nel-2025-il-473-per-cento-dellelettricita-ue-e-stata-prodotta-da-fonti-rinnovabili\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:33:06","slug":"in-2025-47-3-per-cent-of-the-eus-electricity-was-generated-from-renewable-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/19\/in-2025-47-3-per-cent-of-the-eus-electricity-was-generated-from-renewable-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2025, 47.3 per cent of the EU\u2019s electricity was generated from renewable sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 In 2025, <strong>47.3 per cent of the electricity produced within the European Union <\/strong>was generated from <strong>renewable sources<\/strong>. This figure is broadly in line with that recorded in 2024, which stood at <strong>47.2 per cent<\/strong>. The data was revealed today (19 March) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/products-eurostat-news\/w\/ddn-20260319-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by <strong>Eurostat,<\/strong> the European statistics office, analysing the EU\u2019s progress towards the energy transition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the renewable energy used to generate electricity over the past year came from <strong>wind power (37.5 per cent<\/strong> of the total). In second place is <strong>solar energy (27.5 per cent)<\/strong>, followed by <strong>hydroelectric power<\/strong>, which accounted for <strong>25.9 per cent <\/strong>of the electricity produced from sustainable sources. Minor shares were recorded for renewable fuels such as <strong>biomass or biogas (8.5 per cent)<\/strong> and <strong>geothermal energy (0.5 per cent)<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A comparison with the 2024 figures reveals differing trends across the various energy sources. The most significant year-on-year growth is in solar energy, whose contribution to electricity generation has increased by <strong>24.6 per cent compared to 2024<\/strong>. European investment in solar energy has yielded significant results,&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">given that in 2008, only&nbsp;<strong>1 per cent&nbsp;<\/strong>of the EU\u2019s electricity was generated from<\/span>&nbsp;sunlight. Hydropower, on the other hand, recorded a significant decline (<strong>-11.8 per cent<\/strong> year-on-year), whilst the changes in wind power and green fuels were more modest: the former lost around 2 percentage points, whilst the latter gained 0.5 percentage points.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for the figures for individual countries, <strong>Denmark<\/strong>, with its impressive <a href=\"https:\/\/ens.dk\/en\/energy-sources\/offshore-wind-power\/denmarks-energy-islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offshore wind turbine system<\/a>,&nbsp;tops the list of EU countries with the highest percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources: Copenhagen accounts for <strong>92.4 per cent<\/strong> of the total. Next come <strong>Austria<\/strong>, with <strong>81.3 per cent<\/strong>, mainly contributed by hydroelectric power, and <strong>Portugal (82.9 per cent)<\/strong>. Bringing up the rear, however, are <strong>Malta (16.2 per cent<\/strong>), <strong>the Czech Republic (16.6 per cent)<\/strong>, and <strong>Slovakia (17.8 per cent)<\/strong>. Among the continent\u2019s major countries, Germany generates around <strong>55 per cent<\/strong> of its electricity from renewables, Spain stands at around <strong>54 per cent<\/strong>, <strong>Italy<\/strong> is almost exactly in line with the EU average of <strong>47.3 per cent<\/strong>, whilst <strong>France<\/strong>, at <strong>28 per cent<\/strong>, ranks lowest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eurostat data, wind power accounts for 37.5 per cent of the EU\u2019s electricity generated from renewable sources. This is followed by solar power (27.5 per cent), hydroelectric power (25.9 per cent), biomass (8.5 per cent) and geothermal power (0.5 per cent)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7899,"featured_media":219228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30800],"tags":[26035,33392,33468,30256,29314,31425,29777,27580,25786,28252],"class_list":["post-448160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-electricity-en","tag-energia","tag-energia-idroelettrica","tag-transition-energetics-en","tag-eolico-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-geothermal-en","tag-green-en-2","tag-renowable-en","tag-solar-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448161,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448160\/revisions\/448161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}