Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables (cleanenergywire.org)
(Saturday December 13, 2025 @05:00AM (BeauHD)
from the energy-transition dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/12/239237/germany-covers-nearly-56-percent-of-2025-electricity-use-with-renewables
- Source link: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-covers-nearly-56-percent-2025-electricity-use-renewables
Longtime Slashdot reader [1]AmiMoJo shares a report from Clean Energy Wire:
> Renewable energy sources [2]covered nearly 56 percent of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2025 , according to [3]preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite a 'historically weak' first quarter of the year for wind power production and a significant drop in hydropower output, the share of renewables grew by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous year thanks to an increase in installed solar power capacity.
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> Solar power output increased by 18.7 percent over the whole year, while the strong growth in installed capacity from previous years could be sustained, with more than 17 gigawatts (GW) added to the system. With March being the least windy month in Germany since records began in 1950, wind power output, on the other hand, faced a drop of 5.2 percent compared to 2024. However, stronger winds in the second and third quarter compensated for much of the early-year decrease.
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> Onshore turbines with a capacity of 5.2 GW were added to the grid, a marked increase from the 3.3 GW in the previous year. Due to significantly less precipitation this year compared to 2024, hydropower output dropped by nearly one quarter (24.1%), while remaining only a fraction (3.2%) of total renewable power output.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-covers-nearly-56-percent-2025-electricity-use-renewables
[3] https://www.bdew.de/presse/presseinformation-von-zentrum-fuer-sonnenenergie-und-wasserstoff-forschung-baden-wuerttemberg-zsw-und-bundesverbands-der-energie-und-wasserwirtschaft-bdew/
> Renewable energy sources [2]covered nearly 56 percent of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2025 , according to [3]preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite a 'historically weak' first quarter of the year for wind power production and a significant drop in hydropower output, the share of renewables grew by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous year thanks to an increase in installed solar power capacity.
>
> Solar power output increased by 18.7 percent over the whole year, while the strong growth in installed capacity from previous years could be sustained, with more than 17 gigawatts (GW) added to the system. With March being the least windy month in Germany since records began in 1950, wind power output, on the other hand, faced a drop of 5.2 percent compared to 2024. However, stronger winds in the second and third quarter compensated for much of the early-year decrease.
>
> Onshore turbines with a capacity of 5.2 GW were added to the grid, a marked increase from the 3.3 GW in the previous year. Due to significantly less precipitation this year compared to 2024, hydropower output dropped by nearly one quarter (24.1%), while remaining only a fraction (3.2%) of total renewable power output.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-covers-nearly-56-percent-2025-electricity-use-renewables
[3] https://www.bdew.de/presse/presseinformation-von-zentrum-fuer-sonnenenergie-und-wasserstoff-forschung-baden-wuerttemberg-zsw-und-bundesverbands-der-energie-und-wasserwirtschaft-bdew/
With this amount of renewables ... (Score:2, Troll)
by Anne Thwacks ( 531696 )
... Surely all wildlife will be dead by the end of the year!
Energiewende (Score:2)
by leathered ( 780018 )
A reminder that Germany has spent over half a trillion Euros on Energiewende and still has one of the filthiest grids in Europe (>400g/kWh) and has among the highest electricity costs in the world. Over 50% renewables sounds great if you ignore the significant amount of brown coal and gas that they are still burning and that they have to import heavily during low renewable output.
Wind turbines are bad... (Score:1)
Orange man says. Buy and burn oil instead. Good for your health.