Eurostat: Energy use in EU households drops for 3 years in a row

In 2024, EU 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.

Households, or the residential sector, represented 26.0% of final energy consumption in the EU in 2024. Most of the EU's final energy consumption in households was fuelled by natural gas (29.4%), electricity (26.9%) and renewables and biofuels (22.8%).

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%).

Source dataset: nrg_d_hhq

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.