Renewables cover 11% of the energy used for transport

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In 2024, the share of renewable energy sources in transport reached 11.2% at the EU level, a 0.2 percentage points (pp) increase from 2023. When the time series began in 2004, this share stood at 1.4%.

The 2024 share was 17.8 pp lower than the 29% target for 2030 on the use of energy from renewable sources in transport.

Sweden was the EU country with the highest share of renewables in transport (26.4%), followed by Finland (20.3%) and the Netherlands (19.7%). By contrast, the lowest shares were registered in Croatia (0.9%), Greece (3.9%) and Czechia (5.7%).

Source dataset: nrg_ind_ren

Among the 19 EU countries that recorded increases in the use of energy from renewables in transport between 2023 and 2024, the highest were in Latvia (+7.4 pp) and the Netherlands (+6.2 pp). On the other hand, after becoming the only EU country that not only met the 29% target but surpassed it with a 33.6% share in 2023, Sweden saw the highest drop in this share (-7.2 pp) in 2024. The other 7 decreases varied between -0.1 pp (Greece and Cyprus) and -0.8 pp (Slovenia).

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Methodological notes

‘Transport’ covers the energy used in all transport activities, irrespective of the economic sector in which the activity occurs (as defined by the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE)). It includes energy used for transport by households and by business activities, as well as by industry and services.
Renewable energy sources consumed in transport include liquid biofuels (e.g. biodiesel complying with certain sustainability and greenhouse gas saving criteria), biomethane (i.e. gas from renewable origin) and a part of renewable electricity consumed mostly in road and rail transport.
Instead of meeting the 29% target, countries can opt to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of transport fuels by at least 14.5% by 2030 (article 25.1(a) revised in Directive 2023/2413).