Last year saw a solar energy boom in Germany. The rooftop solar installation saw an increase of 25% in 2020 compared to 2019. This was not just limited to rooftop solar, all other solar PV […]
Germany‘s world-renowned Autobahn is turning eco-friendly. Autobahns are a network of high-speed highways, where you can drive as fast as you like. These roads cover 2.6% of Germany’s highway network and are an attraction to […]
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest solar power plant in Germany commenced operation by feeding its generated electricity to the power grid. This 187 MW solar power plant is built by power utility EnBW without […]
It was in the last days of February that we reported that for the first time in the history of Germany, the share of renewable electricity generation into the electricity mix of the country has […]
Germany’s electricity generation from renewables increased by 9.8% in the first half of 2020, compared to 2019. At the end of 2019, the share of renewables, fossil fuels, and nuclear power were 46%, 40.2%, 13.8% […]
Thanks to the clear and sunny sky over week 19, Germany reached another stunning milestone in its history. Solar power was the dominant source of electricity generation in week 19. It made up of close […]
For the first time in the history of Germany, the share of renewable electricity generation into the electricity mix of the country has exceeded from the share of fossil fuels, in 2019. Over the previous […]
Interested in the history of alternative large scale batteries? Did you know that World’s first Compressed Air Energy Storage (Huntorf’s CAES) plant was built in 1978? It was designed to store extra energy in Elsfleth, […]
A study commissioned by BayWa r.e. and done by Fraunhofer ISE, shows that Germany holds 56 GW theoretical potential for floating photovoltaic (FPV) power plants on lignite opencast mines. Dr. Andreas Bett, director of Fraunhofer […]
In early June 2019, we reported that Germany achieved a remarkable milestone in that month. For the first time, solar PV became the largest single contributor to its electricity output for the month. Later throughout […]
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