> Renewable energy accounted for 49% of German power consumption in the first half of 2022, up 6% percentage points from a year earlier thanks to favourable weather conditions, industry groups said on Tuesday.
> Renewable generation, which along with wind includes solar, hydro, biomass, waste and geothermal energy, contributed 139 billion kWh to the total, up 13.5% from a year earlier.
> That included onshore wind at 59 billion kWh, up 23.0%, photovoltaic at 33 billion, up 17.3%, biomass at 24 billion, up 3.7%, and offshore wind 12 billion, up 5%.
> Conventional electricity production from nuclear fuel, coal and gas delivered 159 billion kWh in the six months, 6.7% less than in the same period of 2021.
Yup and they’re still polluting af because it’s an intermittent source of energy and they abandonned nuclear power for nothing else but political reasons.
German coal killed more people in Europe than the war in Ukraine.
Actually more people than any war combined since WW2.
During WW2 they used some other methods to kill europeans.
That’s almost 50 what a shame why it’s not 50, very bad.
And thank you for the the cheap and clean [exports](https://imgur.com/a/542NdKd), although it would have been nice to turn down some of that coal instead?
I’m getting worried about the plateau at -300GWh, hopefully the neighbours aren’t building their own solar and wind fields, they would soon have their own excess production to deal with.
Ok, only 51% to go before uncle Vlad turns off the gas next week, go Germany!
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> Renewable energy accounted for 49% of German power consumption in the first half of 2022, up 6% percentage points from a year earlier thanks to favourable weather conditions, industry groups said on Tuesday.
> Renewable generation, which along with wind includes solar, hydro, biomass, waste and geothermal energy, contributed 139 billion kWh to the total, up 13.5% from a year earlier.
> That included onshore wind at 59 billion kWh, up 23.0%, photovoltaic at 33 billion, up 17.3%, biomass at 24 billion, up 3.7%, and offshore wind 12 billion, up 5%.
> Conventional electricity production from nuclear fuel, coal and gas delivered 159 billion kWh in the six months, 6.7% less than in the same period of 2021.
Yup and they’re still polluting af because it’s an intermittent source of energy and they abandonned nuclear power for nothing else but political reasons.
German coal killed more people in Europe than the war in Ukraine.
Actually more people than any war combined since WW2.
During WW2 they used some other methods to kill europeans.
That’s almost 50 what a shame why it’s not 50, very bad.
And thank you for the the cheap and clean [exports](https://imgur.com/a/542NdKd), although it would have been nice to turn down some of that coal instead?
I’m getting worried about the plateau at -300GWh, hopefully the neighbours aren’t building their own solar and wind fields, they would soon have their own excess production to deal with.
Ok, only 51% to go before uncle Vlad turns off the gas next week, go Germany!