{"id":992495,"date":"2026-05-29T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/992495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:34:41","slug":"energy-use-in-the-industry-sector-continues-to-decline-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/992495\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy use in the industry sector continues to decline – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the EU<\/a>\u2019s industry sector used 8 835 petajoules<\/a> (PJ) of energy, an 8.1% decrease compared with 2014. The final energy consumption<\/a> has been steadily declining since 1990.<\/p>\n

Most of the energy consumed by industry came from electricity (2 945 PJ; 33.3%) and natural gas (2 817 PJ; 31.9%). Renewables and biofuels came third (999 PJ; 11.3%), surpassing oil and petroleum products<\/a> (922 PJ; 10.4%). The remaining energy came from solid fossil fuels (484 PJ; 5.5%), heat (483 PJ; 5.5%) and non-renewable waste (186 PJ; 2.1%).<\/p>\n

Compared with 2014, there was a decline in the consumption of most energy products. The largest relative decreases were in solid fossil fuels (-34.8%) and heat (-23.7%). The use of 2 energy products increased: non-renewable waste (+32.1%) and renewables and biofuels (+24.3%).<\/p>\n

\"Final<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: nrg_bal_s<\/a><\/p>\n

The food, beverages and tobacco industry consumed 1 134 petajoules, or 12.8% of the total industry production. Contrary to the overall industry trend, energy consumption in this sector increased by 4.7% compared with 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of the energy used in the food, beverages and tobacco sector came from natural gas (525 PJ; 46.3%) and electricity (401 PJ; 35.3%). The remaining energy was from renewables and biofuels (68 PJ; 6.0%), oil and petroleum products (60 PJ; 5.3%), heat (47 PJ; 4.2%), solid fossil fuels (32 PJ; 2.8%) and non-renewable waste (1 PJ; 0.1%).<\/p>\n

The largest relative increase was recorded in the use of energy from renewables and biofuels (+68.4%) and non-renewable waste (+47.4%). However, increases were also recorded for electricity (+8.1%) and natural gas (+5.0%). In contrast, the use of solid fossil fuels declined by 36.4%.<\/p>\n

\"Final<\/a><\/p>\n

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