In the year 2020 50, 5 percent of the electricity in the German sockets generated from renewable energies. With 183 TWh, wind and solar energy for the first time exceeded the sum of all fossil energy sources based on 183 TWh come, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has calculated. Last year the share was still 46 percent.

Wind power had the largest share of net electricity generation with 27 percent, reports Fraunhofer ISE. The generation from power plants of companies in the manufacturing industry as well as in mining and in the extraction of stones and earth is not taken into account in the calculation.

Sunny June The German photovoltaic systems fed 2020 about 50, 7 TWh into the public network, 9.3 percent more than in the previous year. The maximum solar power was increased on June 1st 2020 by 13 clock with about 37, 25 Gigawatt reached, that was 56 percent of the total electricity generation at this time. From March to September, the monthly electricity generation from photovoltaic systems was higher than that from hard coal-fired power plants. In the electricity mix, solar energy 2020 came after wind power, lignite, nuclear power and gas.

The Wind power production exceeded production from lignite in ten months and that of nuclear power in all twelve months. The maximum generated power was approx. 46, 9 GW on 22. February 2020 at 20 , 30 clock, wind energy had a share of 67, 4 percent of electricity generation. Offshore were generated during the entire previous year 27 TWh wind power, according to 24, 5 TWh per year 2019.

A lot of wind, a lot of sun, a lot of virus The hydropower carried 18, 3 TWh for electricity generation; in the year 2019 it was 20, 6 TWh. The biomass was 45, 5 TWh slightly above the previous year’s value of 43, 86 TWh. Fraunhofer ISE attributes the high proportion of renewable energies to favorable wind conditions and a high number of hours of sunshine. In addition, there is a decline in industrial electricity demand as a result of the corona pandemic. According to the calculation of the Agora think tank, this should also have ensured that less CO2 was emitted in Germany 2020.

The share of renewable energies According to calculations by the BDEW, the total gross electricity generation including the power plants of companies in the manufacturing industry as well as in mining and in the extraction of stones and earth is around 44, 6 percent. In industry mainly gas is converted into electricity.

(anw)