“Quality of power supply on constantly high level”
Federal Network Agency (BNetzA)
Extreme weather events in Germany led to a slight increase in power outages in 2015, according to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA). The average outage per consumer rose to 12.7 minutes from 12.28 minutes in 2014. “The slight increase in supply interruptions was mainly caused by weather events such as storms and heat waves,” the agency’s president Jochen Homann said in a press release. “The energy transition and the rising share of decentral generating capacity continues not to have any negative consequences for the quality of supply.”
Find the press release in German here.
For background, read the CLEW factsheet Germany's electricity grid stable amid energy transition, which will be updated shortly with the new figures.
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