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In 2024, 12 EU countries with nuclear electricity production generated 649 524 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity, an increase of 4.8% compared with 2023. This was the second consecutive year with a rise since the 2022 decrease (609 255 GWh). Nuclear power plants accounted for 23.3% of the total electricity production in the EU.
The EU’s largest nuclear producer, France, generated 58.6% of the EU’s nuclear power (380 451 GWh). Spain followed with 54 510 GWh (8.4%), ahead of Sweden (50 665 GWh; 7.8%) and Finland (32 599 GWh; 5.0%).
Compared with 2023, nuclear electricity production increased the most in France (+12.5%), followed by Sweden (4.5%) and Slovenia (+4.2%). The other producers of nuclear electricity registered an average decrease of 4%, varying between -0.6% in Slovakia and -10.3% in the Netherlands.
Germany was the second-largest producer in the EU up until 2021, having terminated nuclear production completely in April 2023.
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Source dataset: nrg_bal_peh
The EU countries most reliant on nuclear electricity in 2024 were France (67.3% of all electricity generated) and Slovakia (61.6%). In Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland and Czechia, around 40% of all electricity generated was nuclear. By contrast, only 2.9% of electricity produced in the Netherlands came from nuclear power plants.
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Methodological notes
Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria, Poland and Portugal do not produce nuclear power.
The nuclear power plant located in Slovenia is 50% co-owned by Croatia.
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