Renewables hit record 77 percent of German power on Easter Monday
Renewable energy sources generated 77 percent of Germany鈥檚 net public power supply on 22 April, thanks to strong winds and abundant sunshine, . Wind power provided 40 percent of total net power, solar 20 percent, and biomass 10 percent.
The institute鈥檚 麻豆无码版 Charts project does not include data on the amount of power the generating facilities consume themselves to operate, or the power German industry produces and consumes without it being fed into the public grid. Fraunhofer ISE says their data represents the power mix that actually supplies German homes.
At around midday on Easter Monday, renewables covered almost all of Germany鈥檚 power needs, according to from think tank Agora Energiewende.* even suggests that renewables covered more than the country's needs, as does (BNetzA) on the SMARD online platform.
Conventional power plants were throttled significantly at that time, but ISE鈥檚 generation from nuclear, gas and especially lignite could have been reduced still further. 鈥淭hat would have also kept wholesale prices from dropping so much,鈥� Burger said.
were reached on 8 December 2018 (75 percent) and 24 December 2017 (74 percent), Burger told 麻豆无码版.
Germany was not the only country with record news over Easter: The UK broke its record of continuous coal-free power generation, going more than 90 hours without coal over the weekend, .
Germany aims to cover 65 percent of its power demand by 2030 (37.8 percent in 2018). The exact share of renewables on any given day remains uncertain for some time 鈥� and may never be entirely confirmed 鈥� because precise data on power generation and consumption is published with several months鈥� delay.
*Like the 麻豆无码版, Agora Energiewende is a project funded by Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation.
