In the EU, we still largely rely on fossil fuels for our overall energy supply: 70% in 2020. Malta (97%) was the EU Member State with the highest share of fossil fuels in gross available energy followed by the Netherlands (90%) and Cyprus (89%), Ireland (87%), and Poland (86%).

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  1. Most of the other Member States had shares between 60% and 85%. Only Sweden (31%), Finland (41%), France (48%), Latvia (57%) and Denmark (59%) had shares below 60%.

    In 2020, fossil fuels made up 70% of gross available energy in the EU, down from 71% in 2019. This percentage has decreased significantly over the last decades; -13 percentage points (pp) since 1990, the first year for which data are available.

    Over the past decade, all the EU Member States registered a decrease in their share of fossil fuels in gross available energy.

    The largest decrease was measured in Estonia (from 91% in 2010 to 66% in 2020; -25 pp), followed by Denmark (from 81% to 59%; -22 pp) and Finland (from 57% to 41%; -16 pp).

  3. “gross **available** energy” – somewhat strange way to call the total energy **demand** of a country.

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