Germany sets new record for renewable power | Emberhttps://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/germany-sets-new-record-for-renewable-power/German renewables hit records in the first nine months of 2024, accounting for 59% of total power generation. This marks a considerable increase from 52% in the same period of 2023, and continues the trend of strong growth in recent years.
The increase in renewables’ share was driven by wind and solar, which combined grew from 40% in 2023 to 45% in 2024. Meanwhile, the share of hydro increased from 4% to 5% and bioenergy remained largely unchanged.
In 2023 Germany installed more than 15 GW of new solar, double the 7.5 GW of additions in 2022. This rapid growth has continued in 2024, with 11 GW installed over the first nine months of the year, 3% more than the same period of 2023. This means that since the start of the year Germany has been installing more than 100,000 solar panels every day, assuming an average panel size of 400W.
With just over 3 GW of wind capacity added in 2023 and 2.3 GW added so far this year, Germany is likely to miss its target to reach 80 GW of total installed capacity by the end of 2024 without a significant acceleration in capacity additions in the last three months of the year. And Germany will need to increase its wind additions by at least 10 GW per year to reach its 2030 target of 145 GW.
The pace of wind additions is expected to accelerate as measures introduced to tackle permitting delays and excessive bureaucracy take effect. Many of these measures originate from the EU emergency permitting regulation and the recast Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), which Germany has been one of the quickest Member States to transpose.
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TLDR: Solár rychlejší než se předpokládalo, vítr pomalejší, ale jsou náznaky že by se to mělo změnit (zjednodušení legislativy)