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Luxembourg firms are less likely than those throughout the EU to invest in onsite/offsite renewable energy generation (26% versus 41%) and energy efficiency (43% against 59%). Energy prices are also cited by Luxembourgish businesses (84%) as uncertainty about the future as their top long-term
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By 2021, renewable energy produced 80% of electricity generated in Luxembourg, comprising wind power at 26%, solar power at 17%, hydro power at 8%, and other renewables (bioenergy, etc) at 29%.
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In Luxembourg, 54% of enterprises have invested in mitigating weather-related consequences and lowering carbon emissions. This is close to the current EU average of 56%.
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Luxembourg is a net energy importer; 81.5% of the electricity consumed in the country, for example, was imported from neighboring European countries in 2021.
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within the vicinity of Europe are usually grouped with the continent even though they are not situated on its continental shelf.
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Considered European for cultural, political and historical reasons but is geographically in Western Asia.
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In 2008, electricity use per person in Luxembourg was 2.6 times greater than in the United Kingdom.
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Primary energy use in Luxembourg was 48 TWh in 2009, or 98 TWh per million inhabitants.
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in 1979 close to the Luxembourg border caused tensions between the two countries.
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Wind energy and EU climate policy Achieving 30% lower emissions by 2020
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Spans the conventional boundary between Europe and another continent.
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to briefly consider constructing a nuclear power plant. In 1972
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and the government negotiated a project to build a 1,200 MW
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There was no decline in the climate change gas emissions (CO
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Mtoe = 11.63 TWh, Prim. energy includes energy losses
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Index

energy
electricity
Luxembourg
Electricity sector in Luxembourg
Electricity sector in Luxembourg
1970s energy crisis
Luxembourg
RWE
nuclear reactor
Moselle river
Remerschen
French
Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant

Vianden Pumped Storage Plant
Diekirch District
Climate change in Luxembourg
carbon dioxide
Kyoto protocol
Cegedel
List of ministers for energy of Luxembourg


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