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Electricity generated from renewable sources

Electricity generated from renewable sources
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
2021 17.6 (p) Provisional value 46.0 37.5
2020 17.4 (p) Provisional value 42.9 37.4
2019 16.0 (p) Provisional value 37.1 34.1
2018 15.9 35.2 32.1
2017 16.0 36.5 31.1
2016 16.2 36.7 30.2
2015 16.5 37.0 29.7
2014 16.8 37.1 28.6
2013 16.6 36.0 26.8
2012 14.7 33.4 25.1
2011 13.5 31.5 23.3
2010 12.4 29.7 21.3
2009 11.8 27.9 20.7
2008 10.6 23.8 18.5
2007 10.0 21.7 17.6
2006 10.0 20.0 16.9
2005 9.8 19.2 16.4
2004 10.0 19.0 15.9
Units: % of total electrical energy consumption.
Source Catalonia: Catalan Energy Institute. Source Spain, European Union: Eurostat.
(p) Provisional value.

Last update: November 2, 2022. Revised series on January 25, 2023.

ENE

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Energy Balance (ENE).

Methodological note

This indicator is the ratio between the electricity produced from renewable energy sources and the gross national electricity consumption for a given calendar year.

Electricity produced from renewable energy sources comprises the electricity generation from hydro plants (excluding pumping), wind, solar, geothermal and electricity from biomass/wastes. Biomass/wastes electricity comprises electricity generated from wood/wood wastes and other solid wastes of renewable nature (straw, black liquor) municipal solid waste incineration, biogas (incl. landfill, water treatment facilities, farm gas) and liquid biofuels

Gross national electricity consumption comprises the total gross national electricity generation from all forms of energy (including autoproduction), plus electricity imports, minus exports.

Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources states in its Annex I the national overall targets for the share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy in year 2020. The definition of these targets takes into account the share of energy from renewable sources in year 2005 by countries.

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