"Still a long way to go for decarbonisation"

Germany’s Energiewende is faltering in areas like the heating and mobility sectors, according the half-yearly report of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE).  The share of renewable energy in electricity, heating and transport edged up to 15.1 percent in in the six months ending in June from 14.8 percent in the same period in 2015, the Frankfurter Rundschau writes, citing the BEE. That means “…we still have 85 percent ahead of us to reach decarbonisation,” BEE head Hermann Falk said in a press release. The electricity sector contributed to the slight gain as new offshore windparks came on line, the BEE said. The share of renewables in the heating sector was nearly stagnant at 13 percent and in the mobility sector, it fell back slightly to 5 percent.

Read the BEE press release in German here.

Read the article in the Frankfurter Rundschau here.

Read a CLEW dossier about the Energiewende in the transport sector here.