Press release No. 472 of 21 December 2017
WIESBADEN – The turnover of enterprises with 20 or more persons employed in the energy, water and waste management industry amounted to 510.1 billion euros in 2016. Compared with 2015, this was a nominal decrease of 9.8%. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that turnover declined for the fourth year in a row. Investments in tangible fixed assets amounted to 14.7 billion euros, which was a decrease of 3.8% on a year earlier. In the same period, however, the number of persons employed was up 2.1% to nearly 437,000.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Investments of enterprises in the energy and water supply sector (43211-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.