EU nuclear power generation up 4.8% in 2024, Eurostat says
Electricity production from nuclear power rose by 4.8% across 12 European Union countries in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to data released by Eurostat.
The countries generated a combined 649,524 gigawatt-hours (GWh), marking a second consecutive year of growth after a decline in 2022. Nuclear energy accounted for 23.3% of total EU electricity output.
France remained the EU’s largest nuclear producer, generating 380,451 GWh, or 58.6% of the bloc’s total nuclear output. Spain, Sweden and Finland followed at a distance.
Year-on-year growth was strongest in France (+12.5%), followed by Sweden (+4.5%) and Slovenia (+4.2%), while most other nuclear-producing countries recorded declines. Germany, once the EU’s second-largest nuclear producer, completed its nuclear phase-out in April 2023.
Reliance on nuclear energy varied widely across the EU. In 2024, nuclear power accounted for 67.3% of electricity generation in France and 61.6% in Slovakia, while Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland and the Czech Republic each sourced around 40% of their electricity from nuclear power. In contrast, nuclear energy represented just 2.9% of electricity production in the Netherlands.
