- Luxembourg currently derives the lowest percentage of its energy from renewable sources in the European Union.
- The integrated national energy and climate plan (PNEC) has set ambitious targets to increase the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption from 11% to 25% by 2030.
A new report found that Luxembourg currently derives the lowest percentage of its energy from renewable sources in the European Union. The latest data from the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat show that only 11.7% of Luxembourg’s energy comes from wind, solar, hydro or other renewable energy sources.
The report reflects well below the average of 21.8%. The Benelux region performs especially poorly, with the Netherlands (12.3%) and Belgium (13%) in the bottom five countries. Sweden is the only EU country obtaining over half of its energy from renewable sources, at 62.6%. Its Nordic neighbours Norway and Iceland likewise top 70%, although they are not union members.
In the EU, the share of energy from renewable sources dropped by 0.3% between 2020 and 2021 due to Covid, representing the first-ever fall in this metric and has a long way to go before achieving its 32% renewable energy target by 2030. Luxembourg’s poor carbon footprint is due to various factors, including fuel tourism. However, the government is progressing, and the integrated national energy and climate plan (PNEC) has set ambitious targets to increase the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption from 11% to 25% by 2030.