In 2022, the EU’s net domestic energy use was 58.8 million terajoules, representing a 4.2% decrease compared with 2021. This figure includes energy used directly by households and energy used by production activities of businesses and government. Of this total, businesses and governments consumed 72.9% for their economic activities, and the remaining 27.1% was consumed by households.
When considering energy use for economic activities, manufacturing was responsible for the largest share of net domestic energy use (15.3 million terajoules; 26.0% of the overall net domestic energy use), followed by electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (11.2 million terajoules; 19.0%) and transport and storage (6.9 terajoules; 11.8%).
Source dataset: env_ac_pefa04
Compared with 2021, manufacturing recorded the sharpest decrease in energy use (-8.5%), followed by electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (-5.2%). The only economic activity that used more energy in 2022 was transportation and storage (+8.1%).
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on energy accounts
- Statistics on climate change mitigation – online publication
- Environmental accounts dashboard
- Thematic section on climate change
- Database on climate change
Methodological notes
- The figures and statistics presented here are based on European environmental-economic accounts and macro-economic modelling using national accounts data, classifying economic activities according to the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE). This is different from the categories in energy statistics, in particular but not only for transportation and storage.
- Net domestic energy use is the total of the following energy statistics variables: final energy consumption by end users, energy sectors’ own use, losses during transformation (for example, from oil or gas into electricity) and distribution of energy, as well as those energy amounts of international aviation and international marine bunkers used by resident units.
