Category Archives: 2015

Energy Consumption Increases Slightly in 2015 Renewables Continue to Grow / Advantages Due to Weather, Economic Trend and Immigration

Berlin/Cologne (Decem­ber 21, 2015) – In 2015, ener­gy con­sump­ti­on in Ger­ma­ny pea­k­ed at 13,335 peta­joules (PJ), or 455.0 mil­li­on tons of coal equi­va­lent (Mtce). Accor­ding to preli­mi­na­ry cal­cu­la­ti­ons made by the Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft Ener­gie­bi­lan­zen (AB Ener­gie­bi­lan­zen) – Working Group on Ener­gy Balan­ces (Ener­gy Balan­ces Group), this equ­als an increase of 1.3 per­cent com­pared to the pre­vious […]