{"id":22789,"date":"2018-07-11T07:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=22789"},"modified":"2018-07-11T07:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:54:29","slug":"germany-renewables-coal-mb0662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/germany-renewables-coal-mb0662\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany’s Renewables Beat Coal Electricity Generation In H1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Renewable energy’s share of electricity generation in Germany for the first half of this year exceeded that of brown and black coal combined for the first time.<\/p>\n

We reported recently Germany\u2019s renewables fleet cranked out more than 100 billion kilowatt hours<\/a> (100,000 gigawatt hours) of electricity during the first half of this year according to E.ON.<\/p>\n

New figures from Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft (BDEW), Germany’s largest energy industry association, indicate renewables contributed almost 118 billion kilowatt hours to gross electricity generation in the country – an increase of more than 10 percent compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n

For brown and black coal, electricity generation declined significantly to around 114 billion kWh, compared to 127 billion kilowatt-hours in the first half of last year. Gas was also lower at less than 40 billion kWh in the first half of 2018 compared to 44 billion kWh in the first half of 2017. Nuclear energy contributed around 37 billion kWh, up on last year.<\/p>\n

Here’s how gross electricity production in Germany in the first half of 2018 stacked up according to initial estimates from BDEW:<\/p>\n