Renewables this year are likely to have met a record 38% of Germany’s gross electricity consumption, a first estimate from the federation of energy and water industries (BDEW) and the centre for solar and hydrogen research in Baden-Württemberg (ZWS) shows.
But despite the welcome two-percentage-point-rise from 36.1% in 2017, the country needs to speed up its renewables build-up if it really wants to achieve an ambitious 2030 target of 65% of renewables in the power mix, the BDEW said.
