“Quality of 2016 power supply remains level”
Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur)
The reliability of Germany’s power supply remained high in 2016, according to Germany’s Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). The total number of interruptions to supply last year was slightly lower, at 177,751, than in 2015. However, there was a slight increase in the average disruption time per connected end-user, which rose to 12.8 minutes, compared to 12.7 minutes in 2015. Bundesnetzagentur President Jochen Homann said this was due to a slight increase in supply interruptions at the medium voltage level. Homann added that increasingly decentralised power generation due to the energy transition had had no negative impact.
Read the press release in German here.
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