{"id":494182,"date":"2026-06-11T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494182\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:41:36","slug":"energy-use-in-eu-households-drops-for-3-years-in-a-row-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494182\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy use in EU households drops for 3 years in a row &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> households used 9.54 million terajoules of energy, a slight decline (-0.2%) from 9.57 million terajoules in 2023. Energy use in households has been decreasing for 3 consecutive years, after the all-time peak of 10.98 million terajoules in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Households, or the residential sector, represented 26.0% of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Final_energy_consumption\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final energy consumption<\/a> in the EU in 2024. Most of the EU\u2019s final energy consumption in households was fuelled by natural gas (29.4%), electricity (26.9%) and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Renewable_energy_sources\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewables<\/a> and biofuels (22.8%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">EU households used most of the energy for space heating (61.5%) and water heating (15.6%). The remaining energy was used for lighting and electrical appliances (14.8%), cooking (6.4%), other uses (0.9%) and space cooling (0.8%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/energy-consumption-eu-households-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Energy consumption in the EU households, 2024, % by purpose. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" data-fileentryid=\"23810830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/energy-consumption-eu-households-2024.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">\u00a0Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/63783529-3563-4cda-bfc2-93071df038a9?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nrg_d_hhq<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Compared with 2023, the energy used for space heating decreased by 1.2% and for cooking by 0.9%. In contrast, space cooling and lightning and electrical appliances used more energy than in 2023, with 15.3% and 2.6% increases, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, EU households used 9.54 million terajoules of energy, a slight decline (-0.2%) from 9.57 million terajoules&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,757,113,91796,61,60,19360],"class_list":["post-494182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-environment-and-energy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nrg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494182","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=494182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}