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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 10 2015, @08:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the power-rangers dept.

Last year, Germany produced 161 billion kWh from renewable sources, or about 27% of electricity consumption. This year, thanks to rapid growth in solar and wind power, the country is on track to produce 193 billion kWh from renewable sources, or about 33% of total electricity consumption. That's grow of about 22% in just a year!

Though this is a preliminary estimate, on 31 October 2015 wind energy had already supplied 47% more electricity (63 billion kWh) that during the same time period in 2014.

        Though the late autumn weather tends to be unpredictable, Germany's solar sector has already provided as much electricity during that 10 month period (35 billion kWh) as the whole of 2014.

Energy independence has real geopolitical implications for Germany vis-a-vis Russia.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @01:57PM (#261716)

    Tera, not Terra. It's not related to earth (Latin terra) but to monster (Greek teras).