Press release No. 116 of 17 March 2022
- Coal was the main energy source for electricity production in 2021
- Electricity production from wind power down 13.3% due to weather conditions
- A total of 57.6% of the electricity fed into the grid came from conventional energy sources, 42.4% from renewable energy sources
- 2.6% more electricity fed into the grid in 2021 than in the previous year
WIESBADEN – The major part of electricity produced and fed into the grid in Germany in 2021 came from conventional energy sources. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the production of electricity from conventional energy sources increased by 11.7% compared with 2020 and accounted for 57.6% of total electricity production (2020: 52.9%). The proportion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources and fed into the grid decreased by 7.6% to 42.4% (2020: 47.1%). In total, just under 518 billion kilowatt hours of electricity were fed into the grid in 2021. That was 2.6% more than a year earlier, but 3.1% less than in 2019, the last year unaffected by the Covid-19 crisis.
