Renewable energy in Hungary

Hungary is a member of the European Union and thus takes part in the EU strategy to increase its share of renewable energy.

[1] By 2030 wind should produce in average 26-35% of the EU's electricity and save Europe €56 billion a year in avoided fuel costs.

[2] The national authors of Hungary forecast is 14.7% renewables in gross energy consumption by 2020, exceeding their 13% binding target by 1.7 percentage points.

Hungary is the EU country with the smallest forecast penetration of renewables of the electricity demand in 2020, namely only 11% (including biomass 6% and wind power 3%).

In 2015, 10.5% of the gross Hungarian electricity production came from renewables, 52% of that amount was from biomass, 22% was from wind, 7% was from hydroenergy and 3% was from solar.

Renewable energy in Hungary by type (2016):[3] The national forecast included 400 MW of new wind power capacity between 2010 and 2020.

The existing Croatian plans of building new dams on the shared sections of the river Drava are rejected by the Hungarian government.