Data
Government R&D budgets for energy (Europe)
How much European governments plan to spend each year on research and development whose main aim is energy, in million euro at current prices, as reported to Eurostat. This is all energy research, including fossil fuels and nuclear power as well as renewables and efficiency, and it is a budget allocation, not money spent.
Latest value
5,584.3million €
The European Union (27 member states since 2020), its member states, the EFTA states and the official EU candidate countries that report to Eurostat, 2025 (preliminary). Version gba_nabsfin07 updated 2026-09-25.
Government R&D budgets for energy (Europe) (million euro (current prices))
Show as a table
| Period | Value (million €) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2,168.3 | final |
| 2005 | 2,114.0 | final |
| 2006 | 2,189.5 | final |
| 2007 | 2,598.6 | final |
| 2008 | 3,277.6 | final |
| 2009 | 3,269.0 | final |
| 2010 | 3,490.2 | final |
| 2011 | 3,464.6 | final |
| 2012 | 3,330.5 | final |
| 2013 | 3,638.3 | final |
| 2014 | 3,472.0 | final |
| 2015 | 3,552.6 | final |
| 2016 | 3,466.1 | final |
| 2017 | 4,381.5 | final |
| 2018 | 4,311.1 | final |
| 2019 | 4,374.9 | final |
| 2020 | 4,812.6 | final |
| 2021 | 5,141.3 | final |
| 2022 | 5,695.4 | final |
| 2023 | 5,849.8 | final |
| 2024 | 6,362.9 | final |
| 2025 | 5,584.3 | preliminary |
Notes on individual values
- Eurostat flag 'e': estimated.
- Eurostat flag 'p': provisional.
- Eurostat flag 'd': definition differs (see metadata).
- Eurostat flag 'b': break in time series.
- Eurostat flag '|C': |confidential.
Where it comes from
- Producer
- Eurostat (European Commission) · Eurostat energy and R&D budget statistics
- Version
- gba_nabsfin07 updated 2026-09-25
- Fetched
- 2026-10-08 (automatically), 15,335 bytes
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- Copies
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- Cite the producer
- Source: Eurostat, nrg_ind_fecf (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ind_fecf/default/table) and gba_nabsfin07 (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/gba_nabsfin07/default/table), accessed 2026-10-25
- Producer
- Eurostat (European Commission) · Eurostat energy and R&D budget statistics
- Version
- gba_nabsfin07 updated 2026-09-25
- Fetched
- 2026-10-25 (automatically), 69,959 bytes
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- sha256 4e77d49de0390a4ee9210700261e4ece1657dcab26454aaae5fcfca881df9e60 · Last-Modified Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:51:04 GMT
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- Source: Eurostat, nrg_ind_fecf (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ind_fecf/default/table) and gba_nabsfin07 (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/gba_nabsfin07/default/table), accessed 2026-10-25
What was done to it
Read Eurostat dataset gba_nabsfin07 ('GBARD by socioeconomic objectives (NABS 2007)', updated 2026-09-25) from the dissemination API (fetched 2026-10-08, sha256 74121b2c2340…), filtered to nabs07 NABS05, unit MIO_EUR.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eurostat.py · code sha256 076295b414f8a4e4… · inputs 74121b2c2340… 4e77d49de039…
Kept only the EU, its member states, the EFTA states and the official candidate countries, whose data Eurostat lets anyone reuse; checked the candidates against Eurostat's glossary page; mapped Eurostat's two-letter codes to ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (EU27_2020 to EU27).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eurostat.py · code sha256 076295b414f8a4e4… · inputs 74121b2c2340… 4e77d49de039…
Kept Eurostat's status flags as notes, with their labels from the response; a provisional flag marks the value preliminary, and a flagged cell without a value is published as missing with the flag as the reason.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eurostat.py · code sha256 076295b414f8a4e4… · inputs 74121b2c2340… 4e77d49de039…
Published every value as Eurostat gives it.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/eurostat.py · code sha256 076295b414f8a4e4… · inputs 74121b2c2340… 4e77d49de039…
What it covers
- Geography
- The European Union (27 member states since 2020), its member states, the EFTA states and the official EU candidate countries that report to Eurostat
- Basis
- Government budget allocations for R&D (GBARD) for the socio-economic objective Energy (NABS 2007 chapter 05), current prices, as reported to Eurostat under the Frascati Manual.
- Unit
- million euro (current prices) (million €)