Photo Voltaic, or PV, of course.
14 GW just in 2023 alone.<p>Note that Gigawatts is the installed capacity, but GWh is the actual production. Germany produces 2.5 times more energy from wind, rather than solar (quite intuitive, considering that solar is much less productive in Germany compared to, say, Greece or northern Africa).<p>From Wikipedia [0]:<p>Germany's installed capacity for electric generation increased from 121 gigawatts (GW) in 2000 to 218 GW in 2019, an 80% increase, while electricity generation increased only 5% in the same period.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany</a>
It's worth pointing out for those of us in the US that Germany has less solar insolation than <i>anywhere</i> in the continental US:<p><a href="https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=44.933135,-144.991617,3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=44.933135,-144.991617,3</a><p>If Germany can do this much solar, than New England is going to have a much much easier go of it.<p>And why isn't there far more solar in Florida, when solar is such a cheap source of electricity for running all that AC? Because of regulatory capture by utilities and fossil fuel interests.
For those interested. We had a windy week in Germany. There was a record of >53MW wind electricity production. 83 million population. 1/4 of the US.<p><a href="https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE&source=total" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE&...</a><p>Right now there is 48 MW from wind and 5 MW from coal.
For context, demand in Germany sits at about 500 TWh/year<p><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-demand?tab=chart&region=Europe&country=~DEU">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-demand?tab=ch...</a>