Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it's electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.

For anyone who is interested in a detailed view of these stats worldwide in real time and cross-border with carbon intensities and individual breakdowns by electricity source: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h

Meanwhile, the USA is 24%-ish renewables and 60%-ish fossil fuels. Damn fossil fuel industry and anti-progress politicians.

One of the nicer upshots of cutting the cord with Russia is the sky high price of electricity incentivizing big investments in renewable energy.

I love that chart you can't read.

They used to have nuclear too

next up: zero teslas.

if germans chose a route, they, walk. (ww2, manufacturing cars, end of nuclear power..)

so fuck you elon. we hate you so much.

Biomass may well be renewable, but I still don't think it counts as green.

Nice graph with no freaking labels.

Original chart source: https://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2024.pdf

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UK for comparison (Average over year)

Edit: Imports are the remainder

Remember Berlin has a latitude of 52.5°. That puts it far north of the 49th parallel border.

I love it, I like it like my new contract they send me with new prices for electricity (44% up)

Wasn't Germany that weird one where 'gas' was labeled as 'renewable'? Or was that something diffrent?

They're getting poorer and deindustrializing at a rapid pace.

Electricity imports also rose to 24.9 TWh, driven by lower generation costs in neighboring countries during summer.

For the love of God, please just build nuclear instead of virtue signaling with solar panels while you import your energy needs.

Germany has the EU's highest energy prices. Just saying.