Industrial heat consumption and electrification across several EU countries have been integrated in an online tracker tool, developed by CLIMACT and commissioned by the ECF. The tool enables users to visualize trends, compare indicators, and break down energy use to support tracking the transition toward electrified industrial heat in Europe.
The tool shows the evolution of the electrification of industry over the last 20 years, both at EU level and at Member State level. Starting from general electrification, the analysis can be narrowed down to the electrification of industrial heat and further to the electrification of industrial heat for specific sectors.
The industrial energy consumption, decomposed by energy type and fuel, can be displayed. Filters allow users to select the country of the study, the sector(s) of the analysis and the year. The tool also enables deeper analysis of the process heating energy consumption: after choosing a country and a year, the graphs show how much electricity is used in each sector.
In addition, the tool also allows comparison among sectors and countries. The sectors available for selection are those considered in JRC research, such as iron and steel, chemical, paper and pulp production, food and beverage and others. Finally, the electrification levels across all EU Member States can be displayed, enabling straightforward comparisons.
Both the methodology used to develop the tool and the whole dataset can be downloaded at this page: link.
