Energy consumption trend by industrial branch

The decrease of energy consumption concerns most industrial branches… however with different magnitudes

  • Chemicals, non-metallic minerals, paper and food industries contribute to almost 2/3 of industry energy consumption in the EU. Chemicals is the largest consumer (20% in 2023), followed by non-metallic minerals (15%), paper (14%) and food (13%).
  • Energy consumption of steel, chemicals and non-metallic minerals has strongly decreased since 2010 (-20%, -15% and -14% respectively). Most of this decrease occurred since 2019 in these three branches (-13%, -14% and -11% respectively).

Energy consumption of industry by branch (EU)

  • At country level, the situation is very different from one country to another. Chemicals is the main industrial consumer in 9 EU Member States. Paper and pulp is the most important branch in 4 countries, especially in Sweden and Finland (almost 60%), and, to a lesser extent Portugal (30%), and Austria (25%).

Energy consumption by industrial branch (2023)