Live EU NECP tracker

The latest targets from National Energy and Climate Plans published by EU member states, compared.

National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) are the principal documents produced by EU Member States to detail their key climate targets and actions for the next decade and beyond. The previous full set of plans was finalised in 2019, and the next set is due to be completed in June 2024. To this end, Member States had until June 2023 to submit their draft updated NECPs to the European Commission.

This tool presents key data from each national plan as it is submitted, with a focus on the electricity transition. It tracks three key aspects of progress in this critical sector: supply – including the shares of electricity from different sources and the build-out of electricity generation capacity, demand – including the demands of energy from different sources, and emissions – including the share of greenhouse gas emissions from different sectors.

A note on methodology

Data for the 2019 final NECPs, the 2023 draft updated NECPs and the 2024 final NECPs are taken from the English translation documents available on the EU Commission website. The electricity data is sourced preferentially from projections in the NECP which are modelled with additional measures (WAM). i.e. projections that include all currently implemented policies and measures and options that are under discussion that have a realistic chance of being adopted and implemented after the date of submission of the NECP. Where an NECP does not provide WAM projections, electricity data projected using existing measures (WEM) are used instead. As a result some power sector targets submitted in NECPs may have been superseded by recent policy announcements.

Due to their low domestic generation and high import dependency, available NECP data for Luxembourg and Malta have been excluded from these charts.

A complete set of the standardised data extracted from the NECPs can be found here. If you have any comments or would like to suggest updates to our dataset please get in touch: [email protected]

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