Almost 60% of electricity generated in Germany in 2024 came from renewable energy sources, new figures have revealed.
The Federal Network Agency published the figures today, revealing that a total of 431.7TWh of electricity was generated in the past year.
This marks a decrease of 4.2% compared to the previous year, when 450.5TWh was generated.
Measured against total generation, however, 254.9TWh or 59% was attributable to renewable energy sources, a 3% increase on the previous year. The total generation also includes exported electricity volumes.
The data shows that renewables were the most important source of energy for the electricity supply in Germany over the year.
Wind turbines contributed the highest share of all energy sources to total generation.
A total of 25.7TWh was accounted for by offshore wind in 2024 (up from 23.5TWh in 2023), and 111.9TWh by onshore wind (118.8TWh in 2023).
Photovoltaic systems fed in 63.3TWh (up from 55.7TWh the previous year), and 36.0TWh came from biomass (37.8TWh in 2023).
In addition to an above-average number of hours of sunshine in summer, the expansion of installed capacity also contributed to the fact that photovoltaics recorded the strongest increase.
Generation from conventional energy sources totalled 176.8TWh, which corresponds to a decline of 10.9 percent compared to the previous year.