Energy transition: Electricity manufacturing from fossil vitality sources elevated in 2025 | EUROtoday

The manufacturing of electrical energy from fossil fuels elevated final yr. As the Federal Statistical Office introduced, above all pure gasoline used extra usually once more. However, electrical energy manufacturing from renewable vitality sources remained largely fixed. Although much less wind vitality was fed into the German grid, solar energy manufacturing elevated.

According to statistics, a complete of 438.2 billion kilowatt hours of electrical energy have been generated in 2025, 1.4 % greater than within the earlier yr. 256.9 billion kilowatt hours, or 58.6 %, got here from renewable sources. In 2024 the proportion was 59.5 %. Electricity generated by burning fossil fuels elevated by 3.6 %.

Wind energy remained a very powerful supply of vitality, even when absolutely the quantity of electrical energy fell by 3.6 %. At the identical time, electrical energy feed-in from photovoltaics elevated considerably by 17.4 %. The solar energy share was subsequently 16.0 %.

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