{"id":134,"date":"2014-06-10T07:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2014-06-10T07:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:01:30","slug":"germany-sets-new-record","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/archive\/germany-sets-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Sets New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11<sup>th<\/sup> of May 2014, Germany\u2019s impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continued, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion \u2014 nearly 75 percent \u2014 of the country\u2019s overall electricity demand by midday. In the first quarter of 2014, renewable energy sources met a record 27 percent of the country\u2019s electricity demand, thanks to additional installations and favorable weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRenewable generators produced 40.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, up from 35.7 billion kilowatt-hours in the same period last year,\u201d Bloomberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-05-09\/renewables-meet-record-27-percent-of-german-electricity-demand.html\">reported<\/a>. Much of the country\u2019s renewable energy growth has occurred in the past decade and, as a point of comparison, Germany\u2019s 27 percent is double the approximately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/monthly\/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_1_01\">13 percent<\/a> of U.S. electricity supply powered by renewables as of November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say the records will keep coming as Germany continues its Energiewende, or energy transformation, which aims to power the country almost entirely on renewable sources by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Picture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-nsm-1-656 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/zoldenergiablog.hu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/New-Picture-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To reach the lofty goal of 80 percent renewables by 2050, Germany had to move quickly.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2012, Germany had installed considerably more solar power capacity per capita than any other country. The rapid growth has slowed, however, with 3.3 GW of PV installed in 2013, compared to 7.6 in 2012. And as countries like the U.S., Japan and China catch up, installations have continued to drop in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, a recent analysis by the consulting firm Eclareon found that solar power has reached grid parity in Germany, meaning once all of the costs are accounted for, the price of commercial solar power is now equal to retail electricity rates.<\/p>\n<p>And wind power reached record output levels last year \u2014 producing a massive 25.2 GW and accounting for 39 percent of the electricity supply on a single day in December.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented growth of solar PV in particular has been fueled in large part by policies that incentivize clean energy. Germany\u2019s simple feed-in tariff (FIT) policy, which pays renewable energy producers a set amount for the electricity they produce under long-term contracts, has driven the solar power boom.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/05\/13\/3436923\/germany-energy-records\/\">http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2014\/05\/13\/3436923\/germany-energy-records\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11th of May 2014, Germany\u2019s impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continued, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion \u2014 nearly 75 percent \u2014 of the country\u2019s overall electricity demand by midday. 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