Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — Euro area

Clean electricity share in the Euro area in 2025 — 72.28%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 22.34 pp.

2025 72.28% −0.38 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 72.66%2024
Period minimum 47.2%2007

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — Euro area, 2000–202540506070802000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 49.94%2001: 50.6%2002: 48.76%2003: 48.37%2004: 48.79%2005: 47.63%2006: 48.38%2007: 47.2%2008: 48.85%2009: 50.56%2010: 52.07%2011: 51.76%2012: 53.42%2013: 56.87%2014: 59.29%2015: 57.73%2016: 57.39%2017: 56.13%2018: 59.46%2019: 61.4%2020: 64.13%2021: 64.04%2022: 61.05%2023: 68.94%2024: 72.66%2025: 72.28%
Change over the period: +22.34 pp Annual average: 0.89 pp
Clean electricity share — Euro area, by year Euro area All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 72.28 −0.38 pp
2024 72.66 +3.72 pp
2023 68.94 +7.9 pp
2022 61.05 −2.99 pp
2021 64.04 −0.1 pp
2020 64.13 +2.74 pp
2019 61.4 +1.94 pp
2018 59.46 +3.32 pp
2017 56.13 −1.25 pp
2016 57.39 −0.34 pp
2015 57.73 −1.57 pp
2014 59.29 +2.42 pp
2013 56.87 +3.46 pp
2012 53.42 +1.65 pp
2011 51.76 −0.31 pp
2010 52.07 +1.51 pp
2009 50.56 +1.71 pp
2008 48.85 +1.65 pp
2007 47.2 −1.18 pp
2006 48.38 +0.75 pp
2005 47.63 −1.16 pp
2004 48.79 +0.42 pp
2003 48.37 −0.39 pp
2002 48.76 −1.84 pp
2001 50.6 +0.66 pp
2000 49.94

About the indicator

The share of electricity from sources that emit nothing while they operate: all renewables together with nuclear generation. Ember calls such generation clean, and it is also described as low-carbon; the grouping is made on a single feature — the absence of carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour — and it has no bearing on any other property of nuclear power. The indicator is useful precisely because it does not depend on the choice between the two ways of doing without fuel: a country with a large nuclear program and a country with hydropower end up side by side.

Important: Renewables and nuclear together, on the criterion of no emissions while operating. It complements the fossil fuel share: together they come to about one hundred percent. Aggregates are weighted by generation and computed from 2000 onward.

Source: Yearly Electricity Data (Ember), license CC BY 4.0.