News Digest Item
23 Dec 2016

“2016 again sees power export record”

tageszeitung (taz)

In 2016, Germany will again have exported a record amount of electricity, as levels have already exceeded the 2015 total, writes Bernward Janzing in tageszeitung (taz). The country will have exported about 50 billion kilowatt hours by year’s end, most of it to the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Poland (in this order), according to the data provided by research institute Fraunhofer ISE.

Read the article in German here.

For more data on Germany’s electricity read the CLEW factsheet Germany’s energy consumption and power mix in charts.

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