Press release No. 483 of 13 December 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2018 the local units of mining and manufacturing produced 55 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this represents 12.6% of the gross electricity production in Germany as recorded by the official statistics agencies (436 TWh including power plants for general supply). The share of industrial electricity in the gross electricity production reported is by 0.3 percentage points higher than in 2017. Since 2008, that proportion increased by 4.0 percentage points. In the first place, the industrial power plants meet internal demand, but in many instances electricity is supplied to other local units or exported to the electricity supply grid.
