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During the first half of this year, Germany’s renewables fleet cranked out more than 100 billion kilowatt hours (100,000 gigawatt hours) of electricity according to E.ON.<\/p>\n

“This is an increase of around 33 percent within three years and shows that renewables are becoming increasingly important for our energy supply,” said<\/a> Victoria Ossadnik, CEO of E.ON Energie Deutschland (translated).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of that electricity was provided by onshore and offshore wind turbines (~ 55 billion kWh), followed solar energy installations (~21 billion kWh), biomass1<\/a><\/sup> plants (~20 billion kWh), and hydropower plants at around 8 billion kWh.<\/p>\n

E.ON says the amount of electricity generated was equivalent to supplying all households in Germany with green electricity for a full year. That appears to have been based on average consumption of\u00a0 2,500 kilowatt hours (2.5MWh) according to some reports.<\/p>\n

In Australia, the average household consumes between 15 – 18 kWh a day; so over a year that works out to about 5.5 – 6.5 MWh annually. Germany’s renewables output for the first half of 2018 could have supplied electricity equivalent to between ~15.3 – 18.1 million Australian households requirements for a full year. That’s significantly more than the number of households in Australia (currently around 9.2 million).<\/p>\n

According to Fraunhofer ISE’s Energy Charts<\/a> site, renewables have averaged 41.5% of Germany’s electricity production so far this year, with a weekly range from 26.6% to 53.9%. Last year, renewables made up 38.6% of the country’s electricity production. Here’s how renewables’ share of electricity production has grown over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n

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Energy Charts indicates<\/a> there is just under 44GW of installed solar power<\/a> capacity in the country, 52.4GW of onshore wind and 5.3GW of offshore wind capacity. As for coal, the site notes approximately 25GW of black coal and 21GW of brown coal.<\/p>\n

Electricity generated by solar panels totaled approximately 40,000 gigawatt hours in 2017 and covered approximately 7.2% of Germany’s net electricity consumption – including grid losses2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Germany was the first country in the world to introduce solar feed in tariffs<\/a>, which were implemented in 2004. Depending on system size, the current solar feed-in tariff for small rooftop systems is up to 12.20 \u20ac-cts\/kWh (around 19c Australian at current exchange rates).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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