{"id":18454,"date":"2024-05-16T21:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=18454"},"modified":"2024-05-16T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:11:19","slug":"eu-50-of-energy-in-industry-came-from-fossil-fuels-by-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=18454","title":{"rendered":"EU: 50% of Energy in industry came from fossil fuels by 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electricity at 33.3% and natural gas at 31.2% made up almost two-thirds (64.5%) of the final energy consumption of the EU industrial sector in 2022, according to data from to the public the European statistical agency Eurostat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The industry sector in the EU continues to rely heavily on fossil fuels, which accounted for just over half (50.5%) of final energy consumption in industry in 2022. This is slightly lower than in 2021 (50 .9%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After electricity and natural gas, oil and oil products (excluding biofuels) follow with 10.8%, renewable sources and biofuels (10.6%), solid fossil fuels (6.3%), heat (5.6%) and non-renewable waste (2.1%).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-86.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-86.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-86-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-86-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chemical and petrochemical industry: 1\/5 of total industrial consumption<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, the EU industrial sectors reporting the largest shares of final energy consumption were chemical and petrochemical (1,892 petajoules or 20.0%), non-metallic minerals (1,366 PJ or 14.5%), industry paper, pulp and printing (1,278 PJ or 13.5%), the food, beverage and tobacco industry (1,156 PJ or 12.2%) and iron and steel metallurgy (963 PJ or 10.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-87.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-87.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-87-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-87-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lowest share of total final energy consumption was recorded for the textile and leather industrial sector, at 1.4% (131 PJ), followed by mining and quarrying (1.6%, 148 PJ) and transport equipment (3 .2%, 302 PJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity at 33.3% and natural gas at 31.2% made up almost two-thirds (64.5%) of the final energy consumption of the EU industrial sector in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[620,2955],"tags":[2391,4670,2434],"class_list":["post-18454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18458,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454\/revisions\/18458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}