The breakdown of household energy consumption by end-use differs substantially between Member States.
Space heating has the highest share in this consumption in most countries (except Malta). It represents on average 0.85 toe/dwelling (in a range of 0.10 to 1.64 toe/dwelling).
The second highest share is electrical appliances and lighting or water heating depending on countries, except for Portugal where cooking comes second. Electrical appliances and lighting consumption ranges from 0.11 to 0.33 toe/dwelling.
Water heating consumption varies from 0.12 to 0.36 toe/household.
Air cooling still represents a marginal share of dwelling consumption in most countries except Malta and Cyprus (0.10 toe/dwelling), followed by Greece and Croatia, (0.03 toe/dwelling).

Note: Space heating consumption includes ambient heat consumption.

Large discrepancies between Members States in the spread of solar water heaters equipment for dwellings. As expected, southern countries, with the highest solar radiation have a higher rate of equipment (especially Cyprus with around 100%, followed by Greece with 45%). However, some countries with a low radiation achieve relatively high equipment rates, such as Denmark and Austria, compared to countries with higher solar radiation (e.g Portugal, Spain or Italy).

Note: Cyprus has almost 100% of dwellings with solar water heaters, for a solar irradiance of 1,886 kWh/m²/year.

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