Press release No. 490 of 17 December 2019
WIESBADEN – In the third quarter of 2019, a total of 120 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity were produced and fed into the grid in Germany. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was 12.8% less than in the third quarter of 2018. Especially electricity generated in coal-fired power plants and fed into the grid decreased markedly by 37% to 34 billion kilowatt-hours compared with a year earlier. The feed-in of electricity generated by wind power and photovoltaics was a total 36 billion kilowatt-hours, which was slightly more than the feed-in of coal-generated electricity, as was the case in the previous quarter. This development was encouraged by the law-based preferential feed-in of electricity produced from renewable energy sources. In the first and second quarter, the quantity of coal-generated electricity fed into the grid was down by 20% and 24%, respectively, year on year.
