Germany again meets around 100 percent of power demand with renewables
Germany's renewable power production briefly exceeded the entire country's electricity demand on 1 May, data provided by the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) suggests. Renewable power output on the windy and sunny public holiday reached 53,987 megawatt hours (MWh) at 1pm, while consumption reached 53,768 MWh, according to the BNetzA鈥檚 live energy data portal smard.de. The data suggests that renewable power production exceeded consumption for about two and a half hours. Germany鈥檚 economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said on social network Twitter that it was 鈥済reat鈥 that the country was able to cover its demand with renewables. 鈥淣ow transmission lines take precedence so that the power can flow,鈥 Altmaier added. Germany briefly covered 100 percent of its power demand with renewables on 1 January, another public holiday, when wind power alone covered 85 percent of demand. However, the data presented by the BNetzA is still preliminary and energy generation analysts disagree how accurate certain supply and demand measurements are. This means the actual renewables share could be below 100 percent, depending on the methodology and data accuracy.
Dass es heute 100% erneuerbaren Strom gab, ist gro脽artig! Jetzt Vorfahrt f眉r Leitungen, damit der Strom auch flie脽t!
鈥 Peter Altmaier (@peteraltmaier)
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For background, read the 威力彩玩法 article Renewables cover about 100% of German power use for first time ever.