In the past decade, Spain’s energy dependency has been relatively stable between 70 percent and 75 percent.
In 2022, with the hydropower production at low levels due to droughts, Spain increased its energy imports (mostly oil and gas—the highest consumption in the last decade) to 2019 levels at 74 percent. In 2023, the situation improved, with imports decreasing to 70 percent.
The 2023 figure is still significantly far from the European Union’s average of 62 percent (in 2022, even though it was the European Union’s worst year in the past decade), and far from PNIEC’s goal of 50 percent by 2030.
