More impressively, in the first quarter of the year, 27% (40.2 terawatt hours) of the electricity supply in Europe’s largest economy came from renewables.

And these figures are not even world records. Denmark (admittedly a far smaller economy) produced 33.2% of its electricity from wind in 2013. Wind met 54.8% of demand in December, and during one hour on 1 December, wind’s share of demand was 135.8%,