In 2021, Luxembourg imported 88.15% of the total electricity available for final consumption on its territory, showing the highest dependence amongst European Union (EU) Member States, preliminary data extracted from European statistics agency Eurostat have shown.

Of the 27 EU Member States, only eight were generating enough electricity to fully cover their own national final consumption. On the other hand, Luxembourg and Lithuania (75.66%) were the only two Member States which imported more than half of their electricity requirements. For the whole EU, only 0.3% of final electricity consumption was imported in 2021.

However, the total of 6,491 GWh (gigawatt-hour) of electricity consumed in Luxembourg in 2021 represented less than 8% of total electricity consumed in Belgium and less than 2% of that consumed in Germany or in France, the three neighbouring countries from which Luxembourg imports electricity. In 2020, the latest year for which the data are available, 76% of electricity imported into Luxembourg came from Germany, followed by 18% from France and the remaining 6% from Belgium.

In terms of gross electricity produced in the EU, for which data are available from 2020, renewables and biofuels accounted for 39% of total production, whilst fossil fuel (solid fuel, peat, oil and petroleum) accounted for 35%, nuclear heat generated 25% and natural gas and manufactured gas accounted for 21%. Less than 1% was produced from non-renewable industrial and municipal waste.

Electricity consumption by households represented 29% of total consumption across the EU, with Luxembourg reporting 1,501 KWh (kilowatt-hour) of electricity consumed by each resident on average in 2020, lower than the EU average of 1,596 KWh electricity consumed per capita. The highest share of per capita (per resident) consumption in 2020 was recorded in Sweden (4,122 KWh), followed by Finland (3,989 KWh) and France (2,399 KWh). The lowest share was recorded in Romania (705 KWh) followed by Poland (791 KWh) and Latvia (918 KWh), which were also the only three Member States with less than 1,000 KWh electricity consumed per capita in 2020.