Renewables supplied 27.7% of German electricity consumption from January to September 2014, surpassing lignite-fired generation that reached 26.3%. Last year, lignite still was ahead of renewables.
Wind energy was the largest single contributor within renewables, providing 9.5% of Germany's electricity in the first nine months, followed by biomass with 8.1% and solar with 6.8%.
Solar at peak hours on some summer days already supplies more than one third of the country's electricity.
