EU Coal Consumption Reaches New Record Lows as Phaseout Accelerates
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In 2024 and 2025, the total coal quota was below 10%. The importance of coal has been decreasing due to the progressive elimination of coal use by EU countries.
EU coal consumption reaches new record lows as phaseout accelerates
The share of coal in total EU electricity production fell to a historic low of 9.2 per cent in 2025, according to official data released by Eurostat on Thursday. The figures mark a continuation of a multi-decade energy transition across the European Union, after coal’s share of power generation dropped below 10 per cent for […]
In 2025, hard coal accounted for 3.7% (105,601 gigawattora) of the EU's gross electricity production, while lignite accounted for 5.5% (154,186 GWh). (ANSA)
Historical minims for two fossil fuels, for various reasons. The consequences of the wars first in Ukraine and now in Iran have diminished...
Coal accounted for just 9.2% of the electricity generated in the European Union in 2025, its lowest share since at least 1990 and far from more than a third of it then, according to the latest data published by the Community statistical office Eurostat.
Eurostat data confirms: coal will fall to 9.2% of EU electricity in 2025, surpassed by solar energy as early as 2024. Portugal was a pioneer in abandoning this fossil fuel.
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