{"id":22651,"date":"2018-07-03T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=22651"},"modified":"2018-07-03T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T22:11:08","slug":"renewable-energy-germany-mb0651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Generates 104 *Billion* Kilowatt Hours From Renewables In H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22652\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22652\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewable-energy-germany.png\" alt=\"Renewable Energy in Germany\" width=\"685\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewable-energy-germany.png 685w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewable-energy-germany-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar panels image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/solar-cells-photovoltaic-solar-panel-2810730\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">anaterate<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the first half of this year, Germany&#8217;s renewables fleet cranked out more than 100 billion kilowatt hours (100,000 gigawatt hours) of electricity according to E.ON.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is an increase of around 33 percent within three years and shows that renewables are becoming increasingly important for our energy supply,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eon.de\/de\/pk\/unternehmen\/presse\/pressemitteilungen\/2018\/2018-07-02-oekostrom-rekord-erneuerbare-erzeugten-erstmals-mehr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Victoria Ossadnik, CEO of E.ON Energie Deutschland (translated).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of that electricity was provided by onshore and offshore wind turbines (~ 55 billion kWh), followed solar energy installations (~21 billion kWh), biomass<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\/#en-22651-1' id='enref-22651-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(22651)'>1<\/a><\/sup> plants (~20 billion kWh), and hydropower plants at around 8 billion kWh.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>In Australia, the average household consumes between 15 &#8211; 18 kWh a day; so over a year that works out to about 5.5 &#8211; 6.5 MWh annually. Germany&#8217;s renewables output for the first half of 2018 could have supplied electricity equivalent to between ~15.3 &#8211; 18.1 million Australian households requirements for a full year. That&#8217;s significantly more than the number of households in Australia (currently around 9.2 million).<\/p>\n<p>According to Fraunhofer ISE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-charts.de\/ren_share.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy Charts<\/a> site, renewables have averaged 41.5% of Germany&#8217;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&#8217;s electricity production. Here&#8217;s how renewables&#8217; share of electricity production has grown over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewables-production-germany-2.png\" alt=\"Renewble energy production market share in Germany\" width=\"700\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewables-production-germany-2.png 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewables-production-germany-2-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Energy Charts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-charts.de\/power_inst.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicates<\/a> there is just under 44GW of installed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">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<p>Electricity generated by solar panels totaled approximately 40,000 gigawatt hours in 2017 and covered approximately 7.2% of Germany&#8217;s net electricity consumption &#8211; including grid losses<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\/#en-22651-2' id='enref-22651-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(22651)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was the first country in the world to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">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":"<p>During the first half of this year, Germany&#8217;s renewables fleet cranked out more than 100 billion kilowatt hours (100,000 gigawatt hours) of electricity according to E.ON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany Generates 104 *Billion* Kilowatt Hours From Renewables In H1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During the first half of this year, Germany&#039;s renewables fleet cranked out more than 100 billion kilowatt hours (100,000 gigawatt hours) of electricity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Germany Generates 104 *Billion* Kilowatt Hours From Renewables In H1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During the first half of this year, Germany&#039;s renewables fleet cranked out more than 100 billion kilowatt hours (100,000 gigawatt hours) of electricity.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-02T22:04:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-02T22:11:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/renewable-energy-germany.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"685\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Germany Generates 104 *Billion* Kilowatt Hours From Renewables In H1\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-07-02T22:04:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-02T22:11:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":394,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/renewable-energy-germany-mb0651\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/07\\\/renewable-energy-germany.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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