![]() ![]() ![]() The coal plants are located close to historic coal mining regions in the Ruhr, Saar and Lusatia. The 21GW of lignite includes four of the top five CO2 emitters and 9% of all emissions in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). The 49 gigawatts (GW) of hard coal and lignite capacity met 46% of domestic demand in 2015 (see below). Power sources in GermanyĬoal remains the bedrock of electricity generation. While transport emissions rose in both countries last year, dramatic falls in UK coal use obscured its similar lack of progress. The German environment agency points to transport as one of the key reasons for the slight increase in emissions during 2015, along with cooler weather. Source: Federal Environment Agency (UBA), including estimates for 2015. The category “other” includes waste, fugitive emissions from fossil fuel extraction and distribution, commercial heating and the military. Hover over the chart to see how sectoral emissions have changed since 1990. German greenhouse gas emissions, millions of tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e), 1990-2015 and targets to 2050. Yet it also reflects stubbornly flat emissions from transport (light blue), stuck at 1990 levels, as well as agriculture (orange). Most obviously, the failure to reduce emissions reflects continued reliance on coal generation and flat emissions in the power sector (dark blue bars, below). It is also falling short of goals to cut energy use. This leaves Germany a long way from its 2020 target of cutting emissions by 40%. German emissionsĭespite falling energy use and increasing renewable output, greenhouse gas emissions are virtually unchanged since 2009 at 27% below 1990 levels. Renewables have grown rapidly from a low starting point, with wind more than doubling since 2005 and solar tripling. Biomass supplied 26% and solar 20%, with 10% from hydro. On this basis, wind was the top renewable energy source in 2015, supplying 46% of renewables’ share. This substitutes nuclear or renewable electricity with the amount of fossil energy needed to generate an equivalent amount of power in a thermal plant.) (Note that the primary energy figures in this chart are derived by BP using the partial substitution method. The country has an EU target to source 18% of its energy from renewables by 2020. However, only around 13% of heat came from renewable energy and 5% for transport. Renewables supplied around a third of German electricity in 2015 (see chart, below). By 2015, the 79.7% fossil share was the lowest in at least half a century, as nuclear’s decline to 6.5% was outweighed by a record-high 13.8% contribution from renewables. Hover over the chart for more information, including change in emissions compared to 2005 and shares of that year’s total.įossil fuels supplied 99% of German energy in 1965 and 89% in 1990, with nuclear making up the difference. Select sources by clicking on the legend. Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Top: German primary energy use by source, millions of tonnes of oil equivalent, 1965-2015. Yet it has remained relatively flat since then and still supplies more energy than all low-carbon sources combined. Oil overtook coal as Germany’s number one fuel in the early 1970s and today accounts for more than a third of the total. (To clarify, this is referring to all energy used by the countries, not just electricity.) UK energy use has fallen even further, and is now at 1960s levels. Germany used 320 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) in 2015, the same amount as in 1975. (There have been ups and downs: the first half of 2016 saw energy use increase by nearly 2% year-on-year). In common with many other rich nations, Germany’s energy use is in decline, even as its economy grows. Our series of charts show how the coal problem reveals the challenge of decarbonising heat, transport and industry – issues that have remained largely hidden in countries such as the UK.Ĭarbon Brief has also published a timeline tracking the history of the Energiewende and the German government’s attempts to secure its future. Zeitleiste: Die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der deutschen Energiewendeīoth stories are illustrated in Carbon Brief’s new interactive map of Germany’s electricity generating capacity.Timeline: The past, present and future of Germany’s Energiewende.Mapped: How Germany generates its electricity. ![]()
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