Energy Consumption Profile and Electricity Emissions for Portugal

Energy is a vital issue for countries, their economies and to achieve sustainable societies. The use of fossil fuels, energy resource scarcity, security issues and prices instability are major problems in nowadays energy systems. Energy consumption is for that reason very important and should be studied. The evolution of energy consumption in Portugal and in the EU27 is very similar for transportation and industrial sectors. Transport and industry are the main contributors to energy consumption in Portugal. In households, the main source of energy is electricity and in industry’s sector main sources are electricity and natural gas. Concerning the transport sector, main energy sources are gas oil and diesel oil and motor gasoline. The emissions of main GHG (greenhouse gases) due to electricity in energy consumption are equal to 5099.86 kt CO2, 0.311 kt CH4 and 0.24 kt N2O which corresponds to 5174.0 kt CO2e.