{"id":252983,"date":"2019-07-18T14:45:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/in-germany-47-of-the-electricity-mix-is-renewable\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:45:32","slug":"in-germany-47-of-the-electricity-mix-is-renewable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/in-germany-47-of-the-electricity-mix-is-renewable\/","title":{"rendered":"In Germany, 47% of the electricity mix is renewable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ise.fraunhofer.de\/\">Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems<\/a>, 47 percent of the electricity generated in Germany this year has come from renewable sources. Up to and including mid-July, wind and solar power plants in Germany produced almost 100 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity. By comparison, the figure for lignite and hard coal was 84 TWh. According to a report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/unternehmen\/energie\/energiewende-erneuerbare-energien-produzieren-erstmals-mehr-strom-als-kohle-und-atomkraftwerke\/24587124.html\">Handelsblatt newspaper<\/a>, the share of coal-fired power plants in German electricity generation fell surprisingly sharply in the first half of the year. &#8220;Wind, solar and even gas plants displaced hard coal-fired power plants from the market on a large scale, but increasingly also lignite plants.&#8221;    <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">You can find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/de.statista.com\/infografik\/\">Statista<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, 47 percent of the electricity generated in Germany this year has come from renewable sources. Up to and including mid-July, wind and solar power plants in Germany produced almost 100 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity. By comparison, the figure for lignite and hard coal was 84 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[949,887,948,950,947,384,896,939,869,951],"class_list":["post-252983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-knowledge-of-photovoltaics","tag-coal-fired-power-plants","tag-electricity-en","tag-gas-systems","tag-hard-coal","tag-lignite","tag-photovoltaics","tag-solar-en","tag-solar-power","tag-solar-systems","tag-wind-turbines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252983","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=252983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/t-werk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}