Clean electricity share — all countries

Clean electricity share — European Union

Clean electricity share in the European Union in 2025 — 71.24%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 22.93 pp.

2025 71.24% −0.2 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 71.44%2024
Period minimum 46.42%2007

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Clean electricity share — European Union, 2000–202540506070802000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 48.31%2001: 49.1%2002: 47.47%2003: 46.6%2004: 47.73%2005: 47.14%2006: 47.12%2007: 46.42%2008: 48.15%2009: 49.71%2010: 51.17%2011: 51.01%2012: 53.06%2013: 55.94%2014: 58.42%2015: 57.23%2016: 56.7%2017: 55.89%2018: 58.56%2019: 60.68%2020: 63.32%2021: 62.91%2022: 60.82%2023: 68.1%2024: 71.44%2025: 71.24%
Change over the period: +22.93 pp Annual average: 0.92 pp
Clean electricity share — European Union, by year European Union All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 71.24 −0.2 pp
2024 71.44 +3.33 pp
2023 68.1 +7.28 pp
2022 60.82 −2.09 pp
2021 62.91 −0.42 pp
2020 63.32 +2.64 pp
2019 60.68 +2.12 pp
2018 58.56 +2.67 pp
2017 55.89 −0.81 pp
2016 56.7 −0.53 pp
2015 57.23 −1.19 pp
2014 58.42 +2.48 pp
2013 55.94 +2.88 pp
2012 53.06 +2.05 pp
2011 51.01 −0.16 pp
2010 51.17 +1.46 pp
2009 49.71 +1.55 pp
2008 48.15 +1.73 pp
2007 46.42 −0.69 pp
2006 47.12 −0.02 pp
2005 47.14 −0.59 pp
2004 47.73 +1.13 pp
2003 46.6 −0.88 pp
2002 47.47 −1.63 pp
2001 49.1 +0.79 pp
2000 48.31

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.