In 2022, 13 EU international locations with nuclear electrical energy manufacturing generated 609 255 gigawatt hours (GWh) of nuclear electrical energy (-16.7% in contrast with 2021). That is the bottom stage registered within the interval from 1990, the primary yr for which comparable knowledge can be found for all EU international locations. Nonetheless, nuclear energy crops accounted for over a fifth (21.8%) of the overall electrical energy manufacturing within the EU.
The lower is essentially attributable to reactor upkeep and repairs within the EU’s largest producer of nuclear energy – France. In 2022, French nuclear energy crops produced 84 630 GWh much less electrical energy (-22%) than in 2021. Moreover, on the final day of 2021 Germany completely shut down three of its reactors, halving its nuclear energy manufacturing (from 69 130 GWh in 2021 to 34 709 GWh in 2022). A reactor was additionally shut down in Belgium in September 2022. With these 4 shutdowns and one new reactor in Finland, there have been 103 working nuclear reactors within the EU on the finish of 2022, in comparison with 106 on the finish of 2021.
France produced virtually half of the EU’s whole nuclear energy (48.4%; 294 731 GWh), adopted by Spain (9.6%; 58 590 GWh), Sweden (8.5%; 51 944 GWh) and Belgium (7.2%; 43 879 GWh). These 4 international locations collectively produced 73.7% of the overall quantity of electrical energy from nuclear sources within the EU.
Supply dataset: nrg_bal_peh
France remained the EU nation most reliant on nuclear electrical energy, which represented 62.8% of all electrical energy generated within the nation in 2022. The one different EU nation with greater than half of its electrical energy generated in nuclear energy crops was Slovakia (60.2%). Amongst international locations that relied on nuclear electrical energy, the Netherlands (3.4%) and Germany (6.0%) recorded the bottom shares.