The share of renewables in Germany’s power consumption has edged up in 2016, but the expansion of green energy has slowed down as the country is already close to achieving its 2020 target for electricity from renewable sources.

Renewables accounted for 32.3% of the electricity consumption in Europe’s biggest economy this year, up from 30.7% in 2015, according to preliminary calculations by the German association of energy and water industries BDEW.

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