Hungary ranks as the fourteenth EU Member State in the 2025 edition of the European Bioenergy Day campaign, an annual initiative organized by Bioenergy Europe to highlight the growing importance of sustainable biomass in the energy mix of EU Member States.
November 15, 2025, marks Hungary’s Bioenergy Day, a day later than in 2024, indicating that bioenergy could meet the country’s energy demands for 47 days or the remainder of the 2025 calendar year, based on Eurostat’s figures for 2024.
Bioenergy Europe’s annual campaign provides key facts on biomass and the bioenergy industry. It celebrates people, projects, and companies that contribute to achieving European carbon neutrality goals across transportation, industry, space heating, and power, while ensuring energy security.
Powered by Bioenergy Europe, the campaign is amplified by national and international partners who support the idea that bioenergy is more than just a renewable energy source—it is a reliable pathway to achieving Europe’s renewable energy transition.
District heating has a long history in Hungary. Indeed, the very first district heating network in the country was installed in 1889 to heat the parliament buildings in Budapest.
Although district heating has a long history in Hungary, it has yet to realize its full potential – a potential showcased by a new biomass-fired 15 MWth hot-water heating plant in Kaposvár, a town of around 70,000 inhabitants in southwest Hungary.
