“Industrial plants produce 50 terawatt hours of electricity”
Destatis
Power plants of the mining and manufacturing sectors produced 10.4 percent of Germany’s gross electricity in 2015, with 50 terawatt hours (TWh), reports Germany's statistics agency Destatis. Most power of the industrial plants is used for self-consumption. Electricity generated from natural gas made up almost half of the total power produced by industrial plants.
Read the press release in English here and a more detailed one in German here.
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