The usage of power by EU households in 2022 dropped to its lowest quantity since 2016, additionally considerably dropping in comparison with 2021, whereas power use in Cyprus returned to its 2019 ranges, based on information launched by Eurostat on Wednesday.
In 2022, EU households used 10.1 million terajoules of power, the bottom quantity recorded since 2016Â (10.4 million), and a lower of seven.7 per cent from the 11 million terajoules recorded in 2021.
Family power consumption in Cyprus in 2022 reached 15.1 thousand terajoules of power, which was a rise in comparison with 2021 (14.9 thousand). Because the first recorded information for Cyprus in 2018 (14.0 thousand), utilization had elevated in 2019 (15.1 thousand), with the rise slowing down in 2020 (15.2 thousand) and reversing in 2021.
Households, or the residential sector within the EU, represented 25.8 per cent of ultimate power consumption or 18.1 per cent of gross inland power consumption in 2022.
Many of the EU’s ultimate power consumption in households was coated by pure fuel (30.9 per cent), electrical energy (25.1 per cent) and renewables and biofuels (22.6 per cent).
The primary use of power by households within the EU in 2022 was for heating houses (63.5 per cent of the ultimate power consumption within the residential sector), adopted by water heating (14.9 per cent). The heating of house and water consequently represented 78.4 per cent of the ultimate power consumed by households in 2022.
Lighting and {most electrical} home equipment symbolize 13.9 per cent (this excludes the usage of electrical energy for powering the primary heating, cooling, or cooking methods). Different finish use (0.9 per cent) and house cooling (0.6 per cent) had the bottom share.
In Cyprus, out of a complete of 15.1 thousand terajoules in 2022, about 5.6 thousand went to heating houses, 3.5 thousand went to water heating and three.0 thousand went to lighting and {most electrical} home equipment. House cooling used up 1.6 thousand terajoules, cooking took 1.2 thousand and different makes use of consumed a mere 287 terajoules.
