Renewable energy sources accounted for 27.5% of gross electricity consumption in Cyprus in 2025, according to figures published by Eurostat on Thursday, placing the island well below the EU average of 49.9%.
The data puts Cyprus among the EU countries with the lowest shares of renewable electricity, ahead of only Malta, at 11.2%, Czechia, at 19.2%, Luxembourg, at 23.3%, and Slovakia, at 24.1%. Taken across all forms of energy consumption rather than electricity alone, the share of renewables in Cyprus's gross final energy consumption stood at 21.5% in 2025.
Across the EU as a whole, renewables represented 49.9% of gross electricity consumption in 2025, an increase of 2.4 percentage points on 2024. That share stood at just 15.9% in 2004, when Eurostat's data series began. Austria and Sweden recorded the highest shares of renewable electricity, at 90.8% and 89.2% respectively, followed by Denmark at 77.7%, Portugal at 65.6%, Greece at 60.9% and Spain at 60.7%.
For overall energy consumption, renewables made up 26.2% of the EU's gross final energy consumption in 2025, up from 25.2% in 2024 and from just 9.6% when the data series began in 2004. The EU's binding target is for renewables to reach 42.5% of final energy consumption by 2030, meaning member states will need to raise the share by an average of 3.3 percentage points a year between 2026 and 2030 to stay on track.
Sweden posted the highest share of renewables in overall final energy consumption among EU countries, at 65.4%, relying mainly on solid biomass, hydropower and wind. Finland followed at 53.0%, also driven by biomass, wind and hydropower, with Denmark at 48.2%, powered chiefly by solid biomass, wind and biogas. Belgium recorded the lowest overall share at 14.9%, followed by Slovakia at 16.3% and Ireland at 17.2%.
Renewable energy use in heating and cooling continued to grow across the EU, reaching 27.4% in 2025, the highest level since the data series began in 2004, when the figure stood at 11.7%. That marked a rise of 0.7 percentage points on 2024's 26.7%, a slightly smaller annual increase than the long-term average of 0.75 percentage points recorded between 2004 and 2025.
Sources: CNA, Eurostat
