The EU continues to largely rely on fossil fuels for its overall energy supply, as illustrated by the ratio of fossil fuels in gross available energy (the total energy demand of a country or region). In 2021, fossil fuels made up 70% of gross available energy in the EU, remaining at the same level as in 2020. This percentage had decreased significantly over the last decades. Since 1990, the first year for which data are available, it dropped by 13 percentage points (pp), mostly due to the increase in renewable energy. (....)