How fast is the EU electrifying?
Electricity covers a growing share of the EU-27's total final energy consumption. Tracking how each sector and country is progressing toward the proposed 32% by 2030 and 50% by 2040 electrification targets.
Data & methodology
Data source
Eurostat, Complete energy balances (nrg_bal_c), annual. Charts show 2000–2024; the series reaches back to 1990 but early-1990s data is unreliable for several
states. For each sector, the electrification rate = final electricity consumption (product E7000) ÷ that sector's total final energy consumption (product TOTAL). The EU-27 aggregate is Σ member-state electricity ÷ Σ member-state
total.
Sectors
| Sector | Eurostat code |
|---|---|
| Total final consumption | FC_E |
| Industry | FC_IND_E |
| Residential buildings | FC_OTH_HH_E |
| Commercial & services | FC_OTH_CP_E |
| Transport | FC_TRA_E |
Targets
32% by 2030 — the electrification key performance indicator of the EU Clean Industrial Deal and Affordable Energy Action Plan (2025), against a 2024 baseline of 23.4%. 50% by 2040 — the ambition expected from the forthcoming Electrification Action Plan; the same ~50% level appears in the European Commission's 2040 climate-target impact assessment (rising above 60% by 2050). The 2040 figure is provisional and will be updated once the Action Plan is published.
Notes & caveats
Transport is shown as the raw electricity/TFC ratio (~2%) and excludes the Renewable Energy Directive multipliers that raise the Commission's headline figure. Pre-2004 EU-27 is a counterfactual sum of today's 27 members. * Malta, Cyprus, Luxembourg have very small or distorted energy bases. All figures are illustrative, not forecasts.