site.btaNuclear Power Accounts for 40% of Bulgaria’s Total Electricity Output in 2024

Bulgaria generated 15,777 GWh of nuclear electricity in 2024, accounting for around 40% of the country’s total electricity output, Eurostat reported Thursday.

In the same year, the 12 EU Member States with nuclear power produced 649,524 GWh of electricity, up 4.8% from 2023, marking the second consecutive year of growth following a decline in 2022 (609,255 GWh). Nuclear energy made up 23.3% of total electricity production in the EU.

France remained the bloc’s largest nuclear power producer, generating 380,451 GWh (58.6% of EU nuclear output), followed by Spain with 54,510 GWh (8.4%), Sweden with 50,665 GWh (7.8%), and Finland with 32,599 GWh (5%).

Compared with 2023, production increased most in France (up 12.5%), Sweden (4.5%) and Slovenia (4.2%), while other nuclear-producing countries saw an average decline of 4%, ranging from a 0.6% drop in Slovakia to 10.3% in the Netherlands.

Germany, the EU’s second-largest nuclear producer until 2021, fully phased out nuclear power in April 2023.

Countries most reliant on nuclear energy in 2024 were France (67.3% of electricity) and Slovakia (61.6%), with Hungary, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland, and the Czechia sourcing around 40% of their electricity from nuclear plants. By contrast, only 2.9% of electricity in the Netherlands came from nuclear power.