Last year, energy from renewable sources represented 26.2% of the energy consumed in the European Union, increasing from 25.2% in 2024, and Romania is slightly below the European average, according to provisional data published by Eurostat.

Among the member states, Sweden had the highest share of energy from renewable sources in gross final energy consumption, with 65.4%. The next places are Finland (53%) and Denmark (48.2%). The lowest shares of renewable sources were registered in Belgium (14.9%), Slovakia (16.3%) and Ireland (17.2%), according to Agerpres.

In Romania, the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption was, in 2025, 25.6%, slightly increasing from 25.4% in 2024. Romania is better in this respect than countries such as Germany and France, where the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption was 23.9%.

Eurostat data also shows that renewable sources covered half (49.9%) of all electricity consumed in the EU in 2025, up from 47.5% in 2024. Among the member states, the leader is Austria, where 90.8% of gross electricity consumption came from renewable sources, followed by Sweden (89.2%), Denmark (77.7%), Portugal (65.6%), Greece (60.9%) and Spain (60.7%). In contrast, Malta (11.2%) and the Czech Republic (19.2%) recorded the lowest shares of renewable sources in gross electricity consumption.

In the case of Romania, renewable sources covered 49.87% of all electricity consumed. Romania is ahead of countries such as Greece, Lithuania, Croatia, Latvia or Finland in this regard.

The European Statistics Office points out that the use of renewable sources for heating and cooling has continued to grow in the EU, with a share of 27.4% in 2025, compared to 26.7% in 2024 and 11.7% in 2004.