Category Archives: 2016

Energy Consumption Increases in 2016 — Natural Gas on the Upswing/Slightly More Renewables/Less Coal an Nuclear Power

Berlin/Cologne (Decem­ber 20, 2016) – In 2016, ener­gy con­sump­ti­on in Ger­ma­ny pea­k­ed at 13,427 peta­joules (PJ), or 458.2 mil­li­on tons of coal equi­va­lent (Mtce). This equ­als an increase of 1.6 per­cent com­pared to the pre­vious year. Accor­ding to cal­cu­la­ti­ons and sur­veys con­duc­ted by the Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft Ener­gie­bi­lan­zen (AG Ener­gie­bi­lan­zen) – Working Group on Ener­gy Balan­ces (Ener­gy […]

2015 Exhibits Slight Increase in Energy Consumption Status Report on Energy Consumption in 2015 / Natural Gas and Renewables Grow

Berlin/Köln (April 22, 2016) — Ener­gy con­sump­ti­on in Ger­ma­ny pea­k­ed at 13,306 peta­joules (PJ), or 454.0 mil­li­on tons of coal equi­va­lent (Mtce), in 2015 and, thus, was about one per­cent abo­ve the pre­vious year’s level. This increase is pri­ma­ri­ly due to the wea­ther, which was slight­ly coo­ler than the much mil­der pre­vious year, and the […]