Malta had the second lowest share of renewables in net electricity generated in the EU during the second quarter of this year, Eurostat has said.
In the second quarter of 2025, 54% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024, Eurostat said. “This increase was mostly due to solar energy, which generated a total of 122 317 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in the second quarter of 2025, representing 19.9% of the total electricity generation mix.”
“June 2025 was the first month in history where solar energy (22.0%) was the main source of electricity generated in the EU, ahead of nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%) and natural gas (13.8%).”
Among EU countries, in the second quarter of 2025, Denmark, with 94.7%, had the highest share of renewables in net electricity generated, followed by Latvia (93.4%), Austria (91.8%), Croatia (89.5%) and Portugal (85.6%). The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Slovakia (19.9%), Malta (21.2%) and Czechia (22.1%), it said.
It said that in 15 EU countries, the share of renewable energy sources in net electricity generation increased in the second quarter of 2025. The largest year-on-year increases were recorded in Luxembourg (+13.5 percentage points (pp)) and Belgium (+9.1 pp), both of them due to the increase in solar energy.
Most of the electricity generated from renewable sources came from solar (36.8%), wind (29.5%) and hydro (26.0%), followed by combustible renewable fuels (7.3%) and geothermal energy (0.4%), it said.
