Final Energy Consumption
In 2010 the largest share(34%) of final energy was for domestic use (this includes: households, service sector, commerce, and agriculture). Transport and industrial sector both consumed about a quarter. Fossil fuels are also used as raw material in several manufacturing processes, this non-energetic use accounts for the remainder of the final energy.
A more detailed picture of the energy and type of fuel used by various activities is given in the table below.
| final energy by activity(ktoe) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electricity | Natural gas | Coal | Oil | Renewable | Heat | Total | Share of final energy | |
| Domestic usage (2009) | ||||||||
| Households | 1738 | 3322 | 264 | 2756 | 231 | 13 | 8324 | 20.2% |
| Commerce and services | 1847 | 1728 | 952 | 9 | 69 | 4605 | 11.2% | |
| Agriculture | 88 | 235 | 433 | 35 | 25 | 816 | 2.0% | |
| Other | 9 | 9 | 46 | 64 | 0.2% | |||
| Industrial usage (2009) | ||||||||
| Chemical | 746 | 1979 | 13 | 149 | 18 | 370 | 3275 | 7.9% |
| Iron and steel | 447 | 678 | 578 | 11 | 1714 | 4.2% | ||
| Non metal minerals | 168 | 290 | 202 | 269 | 94 | 1023 | 2.5% | |
| Food/beverage/tobacco | 400 | 531 | 56 | 51 | 18 | 30 | 1086 | 2.6% |
| Printing/paper pulp | 205 | 148 | 33 | 15 | 307 | 50 | 758 | 1.8% |
| Construction | 110 | 197 | 63 | 3 | 370 | 0.9% | ||
| Non ferro metals | 114 | 96 | 22 | 111 | 343 | 0.8% | ||
| Machinery | 151 | 66 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 238 | 0.6% | |
| Textile and leather | 108 | 97 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 212 | 0.5% | |
| Transportation items | 87 | 92 | 4 | 183 | 0.4% | |||
| Wood | 67 | 9 | 103 | 179 | 0.4% | |||
| Extractive industries | 54 | 11 | 65 | 0.2% | ||||
| Other | 152 | 42 | 6 | 218 | 14 | 432 | 1.0% | |
| Transport usage (2009) | ||||||||
| Road | 8881 | 231 | 9112 | 22.1% | ||||
| Air | 1295 | 1295 | 3.1% | |||||
| Rail | 151 | 35 | 186 | 0.5% | ||||
| Inland navigation | 165 | 165 | 0.4% | |||||
| Total final usage (2010) | ||||||||
| Absolute 2010 | 7163 | 11960 | 1363 | 21746 | 1156 | 640 | 44028 | |
| Share 2010 | 16.3% | 27.2% | 3.1% | 49.4% | 2.6% | 1.5% | 100% | |
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