{"id":294714,"date":"2026-02-12T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294714\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:34:11","slug":"energy-use-of-eu-economy-4-1-in-2023-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294714\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy use of EU economy: -4.1% in 2023 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2023, the EU<\/a> economy\u2019s net domestic energy<\/a> use was 56.1 million terajoules<\/a> (-4.1% compared with 2022). Businesses and governments consumed 72.3% for their production activities, and the remaining 27.7% was consumed directly by households.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When considering energy use by economic activity, manufacturing was responsible for the largest share of net domestic energy use (14.3 million terajoules; 25.5% of the overall net domestic energy use), followed by electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (10.1 million terajoules; 17.9%) and transport and storage (6.9 million terajoules; 12.3%).<\/p>\n

\"Energy<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: env_ac_pefa04<\/a><\/p>\n

Compared with 2022, electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply recorded the sharpest decrease in energy use (-8.7%), followed by manufacturing (-5.5%), while transportation and storage (+8.1%) was the only economic activity that used more energy in 2023.<\/p>\n

Sharp declines and increases over the past 10 years in EU countries<\/p>\n

Between 2014 and 2023, the pace toward greater energy efficiency in production activities in the EU was mixed. Estonia (-43.1%), Ireland (-42.8%) and the Netherlands (- 37.2%) saw the most rapid declines in energy use intensity of gross value added. Malta (+22.9%) and Lithuania (+9.3%) were the only countries that observed an increase.<\/p>\n

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Source datasets: env_ac_pefa04<\/a> and nama_10_a64<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, the EU economy\u2019s net domestic energy use was 56.1 million terajoules (-4.1% compared with 2022). Businesses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,140454,757,113,111915,91796,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-294714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cc","10":"tag-data-driven-news","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-env","13":"tag-environment-and-energy","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}