Electricity generation in June 2023 in Germany by source
Electricity generation in June 2023 in Germany by source
energy-charts.info provides a great overview over electricity generation by sector, renewable share and a lot of other data on the German electricity network. They also provide estimates for the next few hours and scenarios how the electricity network could look like in a few decades.
Very unfortunate that they don't have nuclear power anymore
True, although in recent years nuclear didn't have a very significant effect on the total energy production anymore as most reactors had already been taken offline. It was just a few percent.
What is the 3. color from the bottom? The legend is super tiny and the colors everything but high contrast.
Third from below above the green? It's brown coal.
This had me scratching my head for a minute, wondering why there was so much whitespace between the Load curve and the total energy generated. I can't imagine Germany having nightly rolling blackouts to accommodate a shortfall in generated energy. Then I realized several categories in the legend that are not shown on the chart.
I assume it's merely that they import energy from neighbours.
Here's a map of who exported electricity in Europe in 2022, and who imported: https://www.powerengineeringint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/EU-Interconnector-Map-H2-2022.jpg
