page_title: Economy of Croatia
section_title: Energy
hierarchical_section_title: Economy of Croatia / Infrastructure / Energy
caption_attribution_description: English: Dubrava Hydroelectric Power Plant - building Hrvatski: Hidrocentrala Dubrava ili Hidroelektrana Dubrava (skraćeno HE Dubrava) - zgrada
context_page_description: The economy of Croatia is a developing high-income service based economy with the tertiary sector accounting for 60% of total gross domestic product. After the collapse of socialism, Croatia went through a process of transition to a market-based economy in the 1990s, but its economy suffered badly during the Croatian War of Independence. After the war the economy began to improve, before the financial crisis of 2007–08 the Croatian economy grew at 4–5% annually, incomes doubled, and economic and social opportunities dramatically improved.
  The Croatian economy is one of the strongest economies in Southeast Europe. Croatia joined the World Trade Organization in 2000, NATO in 2009 and became a member of the European Union on 1 July 2013. Croatian economy was badly affected by the financial crisis which, together with slow progress of economic reforms, resulted in six years of recession and a cumulative decline in GDP of 12.5%.
  Croatia formally emerged from the recession in the 4th quarter of 2014, and had a continuous GDP growth since. Croatian economy reached pre
context_section_description: There are 610 kilometres (380 miles) of crude oil pipelines in Croatia, connecting the Port of Rijeka oil terminal with refineries in Rijeka and Sisak, as well as several transhipment terminals. The system has a capacity of 20 million tonnes per year. The natural gas transportation system comprises 2,113 kilometres (1,313 miles) of trunk and regional natural gas pipelines, and more than 300 associated structures, connecting production rigs, the Okoli natural gas storage facility, 27 end-users and 37 distribution systems.
  Croatian production of energy sources covers 85% of nationwide natural gas demand and 19% of oil demand. In 2008, 47.6% of Croatia's primary energy production structure comprised use of natural gas (47.7%), crude oil (18.0%), fuel wood (8.4%), hydro power (25.4%) and other renewable energy sources (0.5%). In 2009, net total electrical power production in Croatia reached 12,725 GWh and Croatia imported 28.5% of its electric power energy needs. The bulk of Croatian imports are supplied by the Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia, 50% owned by Hrvatska elektroprivreda, providing 15% of Croatia's electricity.
  Electricity:
  production: 13.38 billion kWh (2014 est.)
  consumption: 16.97 billion kWh (2014 est.)
  exports: 2.866 billion kWh (2014 est.)
  imports: 6.592 billion kWh (2014 est.)
  installed generating capacity: 4.206 million kW (2013 est.)
  Electricity – production by source:
  hydro: 48.5% (2013 est.)
  fossil fuels: 37.1% (2013 est.)
  nuclear: 7.7% (2013 est.)
  other: 6.6% (2013 est.)
  Crude oil:
  production: 11,070 barrels per day (1,760 m³/d) (2014 est.)
  imports: 37,300 barrels per day (5,930 m³/d) (2014 est.)
  proved reserves: 71,000,000 barrels (11,300,000 m³) (2014 est.)
  Natural gas:
  production: 1.805 billion m³ (2014 est.)
  consumption: 2.81 billion m³ (2014 est.)
  exports: 422 million m³ (2014 est.)
  imports: 1.079 billion m³ (2014 est.)
  proved reserves: 24.92 billion m³ (2014 est.)
caption: A hydroelectric power plant in Međimurje
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