Electricity generation mix, compared
Pick up to three countries and two years. Each bar is one country in one year; the EU-27 aggregate is the sum of the 27 member states, not Eurostat's own aggregate series.
Gross electricity production (Eurostat nrg_bal_peh,
balance GEP), by the fuel burnt or resource used. Gross, so it includes the
electricity the power stations consume themselves.
Eurostat reports 22 fuel codes; they are folded into eight display categories here. Coal absorbs manufactured gases, peat and oil shale; Other absorbs oil, waste, geothermal, tide and ambient heat. The exact codes behind each category are listed in the data table's header row.
Hiding a category in the legend leaves a gap rather than rescaling the rest: renormalising would silently change every remaining number.
Per person divides gross generation by the average
population of that year (Eurostat demo_gind, indicator
AVG). For the EU-27 aggregate the denominator sums the same
member states as the numerator, so a year where not everyone reports
stays consistent. Germany 1990 uses DE_TOT, the reunified
country, to match the energy balance — Eurostat's plain
DE population that year covers West Germany only.
Switzerland does not report this dataset to Eurostat and cannot be shown. Norway and the United Kingdom do, and are included but excluded from the EU-27 aggregate.