The EU's energy dependence stands at 53.4%
From Brussels they are more than concerned about theEurope's energy dependence given the possibility of not meeting the targets set for 2022. A new report from the EU statistical office, Eurostat, with data corresponding to the year 2014 reveals an increase in the energy dependence of the EU. In 2014 it stood at 53.4% on average for EU countries, which means that the EU needed to import more than half of the energy that was consumed in 2014.
But let's see the evolutionary graph of energy dependence in the EU:
The energy dependence varies very widely between EU countries, with half of them relying mainly on imports for their energy consumption in 2014, while for the other half, the energy dependency ratio was below 50%, but… Which countries are to blame for the growth in energy imports?
Undoubtedly, the graph shows which countries we should look at. The countries least dependent on energy imports from the EU were Estonia (8.9%), Denmark (12.8%) and Romania (17.0%), followed by Poland (28.6%), the Czech Republic (30.4%), Sweden (32.0 %), the Netherlands (33.8%) and Bulgaria (34.5%).
At the opposite end of the scale, higher rates of energy dependence were recorded in Malta (97.7%), Luxembourg (96.6%), Cyprus (93.4%), Ireland (85.3%), Belgium (80.1%), Lithuania (77.9%) , Italy (75.9%),Spain (72.9%) andGermany (61,4%).
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We recall that Germany, of the more than 3,000 Megawatts (MW) of offshore wind power connected to the European network last year, 2015 - double the number in 2014 - the vast majority are from Germany. (See article offshore wind energy in Europe)
In the case of SpainFrom 2005, we had a prolonged decrease until 2013, when we were 70.4% going up to 72.9% in 2014,by chance that in 2013 Several laws were passed that cut incentives for renewables and other alternative energy sources that produce energy within the country. If we add to these indications that in January the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) indicated in an informative note that … "Spain joins the small but growing list of countries that are lagging behind in binding renewable energy commitments at the community level by 2022" or Spain comments on it in the article on this same portal, a bad example in renewable energy, we are currently in a situation of palpable energy weakness in a country that due to weather conditions should represent the opposite.
Eurostat benchmark report… HERE
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