Czechia Energy Information

Czechia Energy Research

Czechia Total Energy Production & Consumption

Energy consumption per capita is 20% higher than the EU average (3.3 toe in 2024), whereas electricity consumption per capita is 4% lower than the EU average, at around 5 200 kWh/capita in 2024.

In 2024, energy consumption decreased by 4.5% to 36 Mtoe after an 8.5% decrease in 2023 and a smaller reduction in 2022 (-2%). Energy consumption in 2024 was 15% lower than in 2019. Total energy consumption declined by an average of 1.1%/year between 2006 and 2016 to 41 Moe and remained roughly stable until 2019.

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia Total Energy Production & Consumption

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Czechia Oil Production & Consumption

In 2023, the country imported 7.4 Mt of crude oil (same as in 2022); 58% of crude oil imports came from Russia (56% in 2022), 27% from Azerbaijan, and 10% from Kazakhstan.

Oil is imported from Russia through the Druzhba pipeline ("Friendship") and from Germany through the IKL pipeline connected to the transalpine pipe (TAL) in Ingolstadt.

The refining capacity is spread over 2 refineries, namely Litvinov (108.5 kb/d) and Kralupy (67.7 kb/d). The 20 kb/d Pardubice refinery ceased operations in 2012. Refining capacity fell by 44% in 1994 from 310 kb/d to 175 kb/d.

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia Crude Oil Production & Consumption

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Interactive Chart Czechia Refined Oil Products Production & Consumption

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Czechia Natural Gas Production & Consumption

Natural gas consumption remained stable in 2024 (6.7 bcm), after a strong drop in 2023 and 2022 (-10% and -20%) due to the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the significant increase in gas prices. The drop was especially dramatic for power plants, with a 42% reduction in natural gas consumption in 2022, followed by a 12% reduction in 2023 and a slight increase in 2024 (+3%). Residential and services reduced their gas consumption by 12% and 18%, respectively, in 2023 and 2022 to 2.8 bcm. Consumption increased by 1%/year between 2016 and 2021 to 9.5 bcm.

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia Gas Production & Consumption

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Czechia Coal and Lignite Production & Consumption

After the rebound in 2022 (+6%), coal and lignite consumption kept dropping by 19% in 2023 and 17% in 2024 to 25 Mt. It followed a downward trend from 2000 to 2020 (-1.7%/year between 2000 and 2018, -12%/year on average between 2018 to 2020). Lignite accounts for 91% of this consumption.

Graph: COAL AND LIGNITE CONSUMPTION (Mt)

Most of the coal and lignite is consumed by the power sector (89% in 2024).

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia Coal and Lignite Production & Consumption

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Czechia Power Production & Consumption

After peaking at 61 TWh in 2021, electricity consumption has kept decreasing until 2023 (-3.7%/year) and remained stable in 2024 (57 TWh) due to rising prices. However, electricity consumption for residential and services rebounded by 4% in 2024 after two years of decrease, compared to -1% for industry. Electricity consumption remained stable between 2017 and 2019 at around 60 TWh, before dropping by 2.7% in 2020. It grew by 2.4%/year between 2014 and 2017.

Graph: ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION (TWh)

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia Power Production & Consumption

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Czechia Renewable in % Electricity Production

The final updated NECP (2024) aims to raise the share of renewables in final energy consumption to 30% in 2030, including 35% in electricity, 30.7% for heating, and 25% in transport. In 2023 this share reached 18.6%, of which 16.4% is for electricity, 27.8% for heating and cooling, and 5.7% for transport). The target set for 2020 of 13.5% of renewables in final energy consumption has been exceeded by almost 4 points (17.3%).

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia Share of Renewables in Electricity Production (incl hydro)

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Czechia GHG emissions and CO₂ emissions

Total net GHG emissions decreased by 15% in 2023 to 99 MteqCO2 and were 47% below their 1990 level. GHG emissions have been increasing by 1.8%/year between 2014 and 2019 and dropped by 5% in 2020.

Source: Czechia energy report

Interactive Chart Czechia CO₂ emissions

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