Press release No. 374 of 7 September 2022
- Nearly a third of the electricity produced in Germany comes from coal-fired power plants
- Sharp decline in electricity produced from natural gas and nuclear energy along with increasing gas prices and the shutdown of three nuclear power plants
- Many hours of sunshine result in considerably more solar electricity
- Electricity imports from France down by almost 60%
WIESBADEN – Just under a third (31.4%) of the electricity produced and fed into the grid in Germany in the first half of 2022 came from coal-fired power plants. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that coal-generated electricity that was fed into the grid increased by 17.2% compared with the first half of 2021. As a result, the importance of coal-generated electricity for Germany's energy supply has continued to grow. In contrast, the electricity produced from conventional energy sources decreased by 7.1% to 51.5% of the total electricity fed into the grid, as compared with the same period a year earlier (1st half of 2021: 56.2%). The proportion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources rose by 12.1% to 48.5% (1st half of 2021: 43.8%). In total, 263.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity were fed into the grid in Germany in the first half of 2022. That was an increase of 1.3% from the first half of 2021.
