The energy situation in Europeespecially with the great crisis that we are going through all over the map by the war between Russia and Ukraine, has caused many countries to rethink their way of generating energy, while trying to develop new ways to make our world greener.
That is why, to learn a little more about the type of energy used by each country, this map analyzes the total use of energy, that is, not only the energy used to generate electricity. The website, called LandGeist, obtains data from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy.
In this case we talk about Map which you can see as the cover, in which it clearly varies significantly from one place to another. Just looking at Spain and our French neighbors, we see the high dependence on nuclear power that they have or the high awareness of renewables that Denmark has.
Despite the latter, coal, natural gas and oil continue to be the most widely used source of energy in the vast majority of European countries.
Power generation in Europe: nuclear and wind turbines
On the other hand, we have two quite striking maps taking into account the use of nuclear energy and that generated by wind. In this case, we see great extremes.
Wind power generation is much lower in most countries that have no coastline or a small coastline. Which is obviously not too surprising. And the fact is that, despite the fact that part of Europe’s total energy production comes from wind power, there are many countries that, due to their territorial circumstances, cannot make good use of it.
As we have seen before and it is repeated, Denmark is the only European country where most of its energy comes from renewable energies. Much of its electricity is generated from wind power. Renewable energies include wind, geothermal, solar, biomass and waste.
Lithuania (36.9%) and Ireland (35.6%) also have much higher electricity generation from wind than other European countries. And it is that, Spaindespite our great location, we only generate 20.8%.
On the other hand, we have the production of electricity by nuclear energy. Through a drawing we can, furthermore, where the different nuclear power plants are located and we can know what type of nuclear plant it is. Besides of He drewwe see different colors in the plants, indicating whether or not they are operational.
As we can see on this map, European countries are still very divided when it comes to nuclear power. The biggest difference is probably between France and Germany. France generates more than 70% of its electricity with nuclear power. In Germany, only 11.3%.