{"id":695521,"date":"2026-01-14T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695521\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:12:14","slug":"renewables-accounted-for-47-5-of-electricity-sources-in-the-eu-and-65-8-in-portugal-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695521\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewables accounted for 47.5% of electricity sources in the EU and 65.8% in Portugal in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-meta\"> by AI | 14.Jan 2026 | <a href=\"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/category\/europe-in-brief-ai\/\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Europe in brief AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Portugal, 65.8% of the electricity consumed in 2024 was produced from renewable sources, mainly hydro and wind, a share above the 47.5% EU average<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/000_32KG7EB-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\"  \/>PHOTO Damien MEYER \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p><strong>LUXEMBOURG \u2013 <\/strong>Almost half (47.5%) of the electricity consumed in 2024 in the European Union (EU) came from renewable sources, with Portugal in fourth place with 65.8%, according to data released today by Eurostat.<br \/>According to data from the EU\u2019s statistical service, in 2024 renewable sources accounted for 47.5% of the bloc\u2019s gross electricity consumption, an increase of 2.1 percentage points (pp) compared with 2023.<br \/>Eurostat highlights that this figure has almost tripled (30 pp) since the start of the time series in 2004, further reporting that the share stood at 15.9% in 2004, rose to 28.6% in 2014 and jumped to 47.5% in 2024.<br \/>Wind power (38.0% of the total) and hydropower (26.4%) accounted for almost two-thirds of the total electricity generated from renewable sources.<br \/>They were followed by solar energy, with a contribution of 23.4%, while solid biofuels and other renewable sources accounted for 5.8% and 6.4%, respectively.<br \/>Among the Member States, Austria recorded a 90.1% share of electricity consumption from renewable sources, mainly hydroelectric.<br \/>Sweden (88.1%, mainly hydroelectric and wind), Denmark (79.7%, mainly wind) and Portugal (65.8%, mainly hydro and wind) are the other countries with the highest share.<br \/>At the opposite end of the table \u2013 all with shares of renewable sources lower than 25% \u2013 are Malta (10.7%), Czech Republic (17.9%), Luxembourg (20.5%), Hungary and Cyprus (24.1% each) and Slovakia (24.9%). (14\/01\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by AI | 14.Jan 2026 | Europe in brief AI In Portugal, 65.8% of the electricity consumed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-695521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115893865465045816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}