Press release No. 340 of 6 September 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2018, a total of 1,491 gigawatt-hours of electricity were produced from sewage gas by sewage treatment plants in Germany. This was roughly the previous year’s value. This output would have been sufficient to provide a city like Frankfurt am Main with electricity for a whole year (assuming an average per capita electricity consumption of roughly 1,900 kilowatt-hours). The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that sewage gas accounted for 0.7% of the total electricity produced from renewable energy sources in 2018.
Long time series are available in tables sewage gas (43381-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
