14 DAY TRIAL // According to a new report made public by the statistical office of the European Union this February 17, nuclear power and renewables currently account for over 50% of Europe's overall energy capacity.
Specifically, the report says that, in the year 2012, the 28 member states of the European Union reported a combined domestic production of primary energy of 794 Mtoe (million tonnes of oil equivalent).
Nuclear power made up 29% of this capacity, whereas renewables accounted for 22%. Solid fuels, gas and oil, on the other hand, pitched in 21%, 17%, and 10%, respectively.
Interestingly enough, the report also says that, between the years 2006 and 2012, gross inland energy consumption in the European Union fell by about 8%.
Thus, it was documented to peak at 1,830 Mtoe in 2006, and then decrease to 1,680 in 2012, Click Green reports.
In the year 2012, the Union's largest energy consumers were Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. Their overall use of energy amounted to 64% of the combined consumption documented for the EU28.
However, between 2006 and 2012, energy consumption increased only in Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden, and dropped in all other 24 member states.