Hungary Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 10.873 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 41.533 billion kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 7.498 billion kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 19.176 billion kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 3.139 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 36.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 46% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 7.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 0.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 7.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 4 (2023)

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 0

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 1.92GW (2023)

Percent of total electricity production: 46.8% (2021)

Percent of total energy produced: 44% (2021)

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 6.956 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 8.079 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 230,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 1.395 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 2.909 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 35,200 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 180,600 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 8,000 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 134,800 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 12.1 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

152,400 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

58,720 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

82,110 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 1.685 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

consumption: 10.545 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

exports: 3.758 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

imports: 11.678 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 3.738 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

48.589 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 7.501 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 21.568 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 19.52 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

108.212 million Btu/person (2019 est.)