Energy sector in Europe

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Industry, trade and services
Energy
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Publié par

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Langue

English

Energy industry Economic statistics

Statistics in focus

Industry, trade and services

Author: Aleksandra STAWIŃSKA

72/2009

Energy sector in Europe

In 2006, the roughly 22 thousand enterprises in

the EU-27's energy sector generated turnover of

approximately EUR 885 billion and employed

over 1.2 million persons, i.e. 3% of the total

industrial workforce. At the same time, these

enterprises generated a value added of

EUR 180 billion, 9% of total industry.

Between 2000 and 2006, apparent labour

productivity increased by 57% and the total

number of enterprises in the energy sector

increased by 52%.

In this period, the highest increase in the total

number of enterprises in the energy sector was

observed in Spain, Portugal and Hungary,

where there were more than 3 times as many

enterprises in 2006 as in 2000.

The highest investment rates in the energy

sector were reported by Slovakia and Romania,

which also posted the highest investment rates

in industry as a whole.

As shown in Figure 1, in all countries, and

therefore in the EU-27 as a whole, the share of the

energy sector in industry in terms of value added is

higher than its share in terms of employment. The

difference is higher than that observed on average

in the industry sector. This indicates higher

apparent labour productivity of the sector than

observed in industry as a whole.

The sector was relatively more important for new

Member States, most of which showed above-

average shares for both value added and

employment. Three of the new Member States

show higher than the average ratio (EU-27 - 2.7) of

value added to employment (Slovakia – 4.5,

Estonia – 3.7, Bulgaria – 3.6).

Figure 1: Value added and employment in 'electricity, gas and hot water supply' (NACE 40)

Share of the total industry (NACE C, D, E) values, EU-27 and Norway, 2006 (%)

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