Press release No. 518 of 7 December 2022
- More than a third of the electricity produced in Germany comes from coal-fired power plants
- Electricity production from natural gas up 4.5% despite high gas prices
- Many hours of sunshine result in just over 20% more solar electricity
- Electricity imports from France down by almost 90%
WIESBADEN – More than a third (36.3%) of the electricity produced and fed into the grid in Germany in the third quarter of 2022 came from coal-fired power plants (third quarter of 2021: 31.9%). Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that coal-generated electricity that was fed into the grid increased by 13.3% compared with the third quarter of 2021. Electricity production from natural gas, too, rose despite high gas prices. It was by 4.5% higher year on year and accounted for 9.2% of the electricity fed into the grid (third quarter of 2021: 8.8%). This was the first time since the second quarter of 2021 that more electricity was produced from natural gas than in the same period a year earlier. In total, 118.1 billion kilowatt hours of electricity were fed into the grid in Germany in the third quarter of 2022. This was a decrease of 0.5% from the third quarter of 2021.
