Wind energy

The installed capacity of wind power in Germany was 44,470 megawatts (MW), with wind power producing about 13.3 percent of Germany’s total electrical power.

According to EWEA in a typical wind year, installed wind capacity in Germany was estimated to have met 10.6% at end 2011 and 9.3% at end 2010 of the German electricity needs.

More than 26,772 wind turbines were located in the German federal area by year end 2015, and the country has plans for further expansion. As of the end of 2015 Germany was the third largest producer of wind power in the world by installations, behind China and the USA..

Since 2011, Germany's federal government has been working on a new plan for increasing renewable energy commercialization, with a particular focus on offshore wind farms. A major challenge will be the development of sufficient network capacities for transmitting the power generated in the North Sea to the large industrial consumers in southern Germany..

 

Facts (Germany, 2015)

•    26,772 wind engines → 13,3% of produced energy

•    wind with 86 terawatt hours → biggest contribution of renewable energies

•    44,947 megawatt installed wind power

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