Global Energy Consumption 2018

Based on ren21 s 2019 report renewables contributed 18 1 percent to the world s energy consumption and 26 percent to its electricity generation in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

Global energy consumption 2018. Between 1970 2014 average consumption has increased by approximately 45 percent. While the growth of renewable energy sources accelerated co2 emissions were driven by a surge in natural gas consumption and an increase in coal fired electricity generation. These findings are part of the international energy agency s latest assessment of global energy consumption and energy related co2 emissions for 2018. The global energy co2 status report provides a high level and up to date view of energy markets including latest available data for oil natural gas coal wind solar nuclear power.

2019 key data for energy production are as follows. Energy consumption increased at a slower pace than in previous years in china 3 2 the world s largest consumer since 2009 in russia 1 8 and in india 0 8 only. The increase in energy consumption was driven by renewables and natural gas which together contributed three quarters of the expansion. This growth in per capita energy consumption does however vary significantly between countries and regions.

Global energy consumption growth slowed down in 2019 0 6 compared to an average 2 year over the 2000 2018 period in a context of slower economic growth. 0 7 driven by the fall in production in the middle east vs. June 2018 prior to 2017 there had been three successive years of little or no growth. According to the european commission primary energy consumption declined by 0 7 in 2018 0 1 only for final energy consumption which is insufficient to meet the 2020 targets.

Primary energy consumption growth slowed to 1 3 last year less than half the rate of growth in 2018 2 8. This energy consumption is divided as 7 5 coming from traditional biomass 4 2 as heat energy non biomass 1 biofuels for transport 3 6 hydro electricity and 2. The usa and china were the main contributors to the increase in global energy production in 2019 posting a significant growth in crude oil production and coal production respectively. Energy developments primary energy consumption growth averaged 2 2 in 2017 up from 1 2 last year.

The highest annual reductions in primary energy consumption were posted in belgium austria and greece whereas the largest increases were observed in estonia. Global primary energy consumption grew strongly in 2017 led by natural gas and renewables with coal s share of the energy mix continuing to decline. Firstly global average per capita energy consumption has been consistently increasing.