News Digest Item
15 Aug 2018

Number of renewable energy sources in Germany climbs to over 1.7 million

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The number of solar power plants, wind turbines and other renewable energy sources in Germany has risen to 1.74 million, with a combined capacity of almost 112 gigawatts (GW), energy company innogy says in a press release. The vast majority of installations, 1.69 million, are solar PV arrays, the company says. In 2017, Germany produced a total of 220 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity from green power sources, about 15 percent more than in the previous year. The day-to-day production of renewables in 2017 ranged from 0.02 billion kWh to around 40 times that, at 0.73 billion kWh, innogy says.

Read the press release in German here.

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