Cyprus’s share of renewable energy in gross electricity consumption reached 27.5% in 2025, ranking among the lowest in the European Union, according to data published on Thursday by Eurostat.
Only four EU countries recorded lower shares: Malta at 11.2%, Czechia at 19.2%, Luxembourg at 23.3% and Slovakia at 24.1%.
Cyprus’s overall share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption, covering electricity, heating and cooling, and transport combined, stood at 21.5% in 2025.
Across the EU as a whole, renewables covered 49.9% of electricity consumption in 2025, up 2.4 percentage points on 2024. The share stood at just 15.9% in 2004, when the relevant data series began.
Austria posted the highest share, with 90.8% of its electricity consumption coming from renewable sources, followed by Sweden at 89.2%. Shares above 60% were also recorded in Denmark (77.7%), Portugal (65.6%), Greece (60.9%) and Spain (60.7%).
The EU’s overall share of renewables in final energy consumption reached 26.2% in 2025, up 1 percentage point on 2024’s 25.2%. Eurostat noted the share has risen steadily since 2004, when it stood at 9.6%.
Despite this progress, the EU remains short of its binding target of 42.5% by 2030, which would require an average annual increase of 3.3 percentage points between 2026 and 2030.
Sweden posted the EU’s highest overall renewable energy share, at 65.4%, relying mainly on solid biomass, hydropower and wind energy. Finland followed at 53%, then Denmark at 48.2%.
Belgium, Slovakia and Ireland had the lowest overall shares, at 14.9%, 16.3% and 17.2% respectively.
The use of renewable energy in heating and cooling also continued to rise across the EU, reaching 27.4% in 2025. This was the highest share since the data series began in 2004, when it stood at 11.7%. The 2025 figure marked an increase of 0.7 percentage points on 2024, slightly below the average annual increase of 0.75 percentage points recorded over the 2004-2025 period.