German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur has published its electricity market data for 2024 with renewables providing 59 per cent of generation.

A three per cent increase on last year, the figures show the total amount of electricity generated in 2024 was 431.7 TWh, down 4.2 per cent on the previous year, with renewables accounting for 254.9 TWh of total generation.

Wind accounted for the largest share of total generation among all energy sources, with 25.7 TWh from offshore wind (2023: 23.5 TWh) and 111.9 TWh from onshore wind (2023: 118.8 TWh). Onshore wind contributed 26 per cent and a fast-growing solar component accounted for 63.3 TWh (2023: 55.7 TWh) and biomass 36.0 TWh (2023: 37.8 TWh). The largest increase in generation was from solar, due to above-average levels of sunshine in the summer and growth in installed capacity.

Conventional generation was down 10.9 per cent on the previous year to a total of 176.8 TWh, with generation from hard coal 31.2 per cent lower and from lignite 8.8 per cent lower than in 2023, but generation using natural gas was 8.6 per cent higher at 56.9 TWh, representing a slight increase in the share of total generation to 13.2 per cent.

Germany imported a total of 67.0 TWh (2023: 54.3 TWh) and exported 35.1 TWh (2023: 39.0 TWh). Imports were about 23.2 per cent up and exports 10.1 per cent down compared with 2023.

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