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It is overwhelmingly used for heating, followed by boiling water and cooking. Please spend 5 minutes googling before throwing out baseless claims.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

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From the Highlights section in your link: "In 2019, households represented 26% of final energy consumption, or 17% of gross inland energy consumption, in the EU".

So 74% of consumption is not households. What am I missing?

from the link: "final energy consumption in residential sector" - so it does not include the industrial usage

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