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Germany had a hydropower installed capacity in 2016 of 11,258 MW, including 6,806 MW of pumped storage. [1] In the same year, the country generated 21.5 TWh from hydroelectric plants, representing about 3% of the country's total electricity generation.
Germany has been called "the world's first major renewable energy economy". [3] [4] The share of renewable energy in electricity production has increased from 3.5% in 1990 to 52.4% in 2023. [5] [6] As with most countries, the transition to renewable energy in the transport and heating and cooling sectors has been considerably slower. [7] [8]
This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources each year.. Renewables accounted for 28% of electric generation in 2021, consisting of hydro (55%), wind (23%), biomass (13%), solar (7%) and geothermal (1%).
Germany's installed capacity for electric generation increased from 121 gigawatts (GW) in 2000 to 218 GW in 2019, an 80% increase, while electricity generation increased only 5% in the same period. [7] Even though renewables production increased significantly between 1991 and 2017, fossil power production remained at more or less constant levels.
[4] [2] In 2023 Germany's gross electricity production reached 508.1 TWh, [1] down from 569.2 TWh in 2022 and 631.4 TWh in 2013. [5] Key to Germany's energy policies and politics is the Energiewende, meaning "energy turnaround" or "energy transformation".
Germany's largest photovoltaic (PV) power plants [5] Description Location Coordinates Peak Power (MW) Production (MW·h/year) Capacity factor Neuhardenberg Solar Park [6: 145: Strasskirchen Solar Park: Strasskirchen: 54
The Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage power station in the Thueringer Mountains at the upper run of the river Schwarza in Goldisthal, Germany. It was constructed between 1997 and 2004. It has an installed capacity of 1,060 megawatts (1,420,000 hp), the largest hydroelectric power plant in Germany and one of largest in Europe ...
Production takes place in more than 300 hydropower plants in Norway, Sweden, Germany, UK, Turkey, as well as several countries in South America and Asia. Statkraft is involved in other hydropower projects in the Nordic region and Southeast Europe. The company is developing new production capacity in selected countries in South America and Asia.