Renewable Energy in Germany

ll STROM-REPORT RENEWABLE ENERGY IN GERMANY 2014 INSTALLED CAPACITY PER KM² < 100 I < 250 I <500 > 500 WIND POWER SOLAR POWER BIOMASS POWER 25 000 wind turbines 32 GW installed capacity 51.4 bn kWh in 2014 1.5 m solar systems 38 GW installed capacity 32.6 bn kWh in 2014 50 000 jobs 15.000 power plants 9 GW installed capacity 43 bn kWh in 2014 126 400 jobs 137 800 jobs Renewable energy sources 92% are important to the Germans Germans, who would like to produce their own green electricity 65% STATE RANKING Fulfillment of electricity demand by renewable energy 76% Brandenburg 44% Lower Saxony 17% Saarland 11 % Hesse 66% Schleswig-Holstein 26% Bavaria 16% Saxony Bremen 62 % Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 25% Thuringia 15% Baden-Württemberg 3 % Hamburg 52 % Saxony-Anhalt 24% Rhineland 12% North Rhine-Westphalia 1 % Berlin Source : BnetzA, AEE, PwC, DGS, BDEW, Fraunhofer ISE Date: April 2015 [email protected] @StromReport O Strom-Report.de