Consumption of automotive fuels in Spain reached 2,503 million tons in September, which represents an increase of 3.1% compared with the same month of the previous year and a rebound of 4.9% compared with August, according to records from the Corporación de Reservas Estratégicas de Productos Petrolíferos (Cores).
During September, both demand for gasoline, which rose 4.7% year-on-year, and for automotive diesel, which increased 2.6% compared with a year earlier, went up.
Compared with August, gasoline use fell 11.0%, while automotive diesel use surged 11.7% in the month.
In the cumulative period from January to September, consumption of automotive fuels recorded an increase of 0.8% compared with the same period of 2025, with gasoline up 6.7% and automotive diesel down 1.1%.
Across petroleum products as a whole, September saw year-on-year increases in all groups: fuel oils (+26.2%), kerosenes (+6.1%), gasoline (+4.7%), LPG (+4.0%) and diesel (+1.2%).
In the year-to-date balance, gasoline (+6.7%), fuel oils (+5.8%) and kerosenes (+4.6%) grew, while diesel (-2.1%) and LPG (-0.9%) decreased.
Natural gas consumption advances 5.2% in September
As for natural gas, in September its demand increased 5.2% compared with the same month of 2025, to stand at 25,913 gigawatt hours (GWh).
Conventional consumption decreased 9.1%, in contrast to that destined for electricity generation, which increased 32.1%, while direct-consumption LNG fell 8.1%.
In the cumulative total for the first nine months of 2025, total natural gas consumption rose 2.3%, with declines in conventional use (-4.4%) and direct-consumption LNG (-1.4%), compared with the strong 18.2% increase in that destined for electricity generation.