Record: Wind and solar account for over 60 percent of power supply

The power supply in Germany can be assured with a very high proportion of renewable energies. Last Sunday, on June 16th, 2013 wind and solar energy systems in Germany achieved for the first time the record level of providing over 60 percent of the required power station capacity. Approximately 1.3 million wind and solar energy systems generated decentralised electricity without endangering the security of the power supply. ‘The data convincingly disproves the fears that are expressed repeatedly in the course of the turnaround in energy policy that a power supply with so many wind and solar energy systems cannot function in an industrial country like Germany’, says Dr. Norbert Allnoch, Director of IWR, a renewable energy institute, speaking in Münster.
- Press release by IWRNew world record: Wind and solar account for over 60 percent of power supply
- Press on the german Energiewende

Released on: 2013-06-19