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%).
Source: Eurostat, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20250317-2
