Electricity and gas: 64.5% of industrial final energy use

In 2022 electricity (33.3%) and natural gas (31.2%) made up almost two-thirds (64.5%) of the EU’s industry sector's final energy consumption. 

The sector still largely relies on fossil fuels, which directly accounted for over half (50.5%) of final energy consumption in industry in 2022. This is slightly less than that in 2021 (50.9%). 

Electricity and natural gas were followed by oil and petroleum products (excluding biofuel; 10.8%), renewables and biofuels (10.6%), heat (5.6%), solid fossil fuels (6.3%) and non-renewable waste (2.1%).

Source dataset: nrg_bal_s

Chemical and petrochemical sector: one-fifth of all industrial consumption

In 2022, the EU’s industrial sectors which reported the largest shares of final energy consumption were chemical and petrochemical (1 892 petajoules (PJ) or 20.0%), non-metallic minerals (1 366 PJ or 14.5%), paper, pulp and printing (1 278 PJ or 13.5%), food, beverages and tobacco (1 156 PJ or 12.2%) and iron and steel (963 PJ or 10.2%).

The lowest share of total final energy consumption was recorded for the textile and leather sector, with 1.4% (131 PJ), followed by mining and quarrying (1.6%; 148 PJ) and transport equipment (3.2%; 302 PJ).
 

Source dataset: nrg_bal_s