Germany Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 248.265 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 500.35 billion kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 66.931 billion kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 48.047 billion kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 25.97 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 40.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 11.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 9.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 23.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 4.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 10.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

note: as of April 2023, Germany has closed its three remaining nuclear power plants

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 0

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 0

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 0GW

Percent of total electricity production: 0%

Percent of total energy produced: 0%

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 33

Coal

production: 114.86 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 145.379 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 2.317 million metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 31.503 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 35.9 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 135,000 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 2,346,500 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 1,720,600 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 115.2 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

2.158 million bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

494,000 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

883,800 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 5.129 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

consumption: 8.755 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

exports: 0 cubic meters (2020 est.)

imports: 83.12 billion cubic meters (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 23.39 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

726.881 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 218.636 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 316.064 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 192.181 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

161.174 million Btu/person (2019 est.)