Category Archives: 2017

Energy Consumption Increases Slightly in 2017 — Coal Decreases / Oil and Gas Increase / Renewables on the Upswing

Berlin/Bergheim (Decem­ber 21, 2017) – In 2017, Germany’s ener­gy con­sump­ti­on amoun­ted to a total of 13,525 peta­joules (PJ), or 461.5 mil­li­on tons of coal equi­va­lent (Mtce); it was, thus, 0.8 per­cent hig­her than the pre­vious year. Accor­ding to preli­mi­na­ry cal­cu­la­ti­ons con­duc­ted by the Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft Ener­gie­bi­lan­zen (AG Ener­gie­bi­lan­zen) – Working Group on Ener­gy Balan­ces (Ener­gy Balan­ces […]