News Digest Item
05 Dec 2017

“The German electricity market in 2016”

Energy Post

A solid 38 percent increase in gas-fired power production was the most outstanding feature of Germany’s electricity market in 2016, Marius Buchmann writes in an overview of the Federal Network Agency’s (BNetzA) Monitoring Report 2017 on the Energy Post website. Other developments include a slight drop in renewable power production and a slight increase in CO2 emissions in the electricity sector, which was mainly down to “better data availability and not to real physical increase”, Buchmann says.

Find the overview in English here.

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