Hungary
HUNSolar overtook gas on Hungary's grid in 2024.
Today solar supplies 27% and gas 20%.
What this grid depends on
Three measures that say more about a country than how much power it makes. Open “what this means” on any of them if the term is new.
Cleaner than 8 in 10 grids worldwide.
What this means
How much planet-warming gas is released to make one unit of electricity. Two countries can generate exactly the same amount and one of them be ten times dirtier doing it. Lower is better.
Hungary buys in more electricity than it sends out.
What this means
The share of the electricity used here that was generated abroad and carried in over high-voltage lines. The higher it climbs, the more this country relies on a neighbour to keep its lights on.
Most of the fuel behind this grid is bought from abroad.
What this means
How much of what this grid runs on the country can supply itself. Sun, wind and water count fully, because nobody can cut them off; coal, gas and oil only as far as the country digs them up. A high score is not the same as a good grid: mining your own coal scores well, importing uranium scores badly.
Also true of Hungary
Hungary gets next to none of its electricity from hydro, in a region built on it.
51% of grids in Europe draw more than a tenth of their power from hydro.
Hungary has taken the carbon out of its electricity fast.
299 grams of CO2e a kilowatt-hour in 2015, 163 in 2025.
Hungary is second in Europe for solar.
Solar supplies 27% of its electricity.
Hungary’s neighbours
SerbiaSerbia gets next to none of its electricity from solar, in a region built on it.
RomaniaRomania has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
SlovakiaSlovakia is second in the world for nuclear.
AustriaAustria has cleaned up its grid faster than most people realise.
SloveniaHydro overtook coal on Slovenia's grid in 2018.
Figures are for 2025, the most recent year reported for Hungary. Generation shares are a percentage of electricity generated, not of energy used. How this is calculated.