{"id":252975,"date":"2020-07-24T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/germany-leads-the-world-in-wind-and-solar\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:13:45","slug":"germany-leads-the-world-in-wind-and-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/germany-leads-the-world-in-wind-and-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany leads the world in wind and solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>In the first half of 2020, Germany has so far generated around 42% of its total electricity feed-in from wind and solar power plants.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>The chart shows that the Federal Republic of Germany is thus a global leader, eclipsing even Australia, China and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>According to climate think tank Ember, wind and solar energy will account for around ten percent of global electricity generation in 2020. A big step forward compared to the low share of just five percent five years earlier. Since 2015, renewable energies have been able to wrest a market share of five percent from coal, which will be 33 percent worldwide in 2020. Fossil fuels are gradually being replaced by renewables in most countries around the world; however, this is happening faster in some countries, such as Germany, than in others.   <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2438\" style=\"width: 888px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2438\" class=\"wp-image-2438 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/deutschland-fuehrend-wind-solar-1-878x1024-1.png\" alt=\"Infographic: Germany leads in wind and solar | Statista\" width=\"878\" height=\"1024\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-2438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; color: #333333;\">You can find more infographics at <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/de.statista.com\/infografik\/\">Statista<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -151px; top: -3.36932px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of 2020, Germany has so far generated around 42% of its total electricity feed-in from wind and solar power plants. The chart shows that the Federal Republic of Germany is thus a global leader, eclipsing even Australia, China and the USA. According to climate think tank Ember, wind and solar energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[815],"tags":[381,899,896,861,888,901],"class_list":["post-252975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basic-knowledge-of-photovoltaics","tag-energy-en","tag-power-generation","tag-solar-en","tag-solar-energy","tag-wind-en","tag-wind-energy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}