2023-06-20 12:21:55
More and more companies and private households are using solar energy to generate electricity. In March, a good 2.6 million photovoltaic systems with a total nominal output of around 70,600 megawatts were installed on roofs and properties in Germany, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Tuesday.
The number of systems thus increased by 16 percent compared to the same month last year. At the same time, installed capacity rose by 21 percent. All photovoltaic systems that feed into the public supply grid and have an electricity meter that measures the amount of electricity fed in are recorded in the statistics. Smaller plants, such as the so-called balcony power plants, are therefore usually not included.
More solar power fed in
Through the operation of photovoltaic systems, a good 54.3 million megawatt hours of electricity were fed into the grid in Germany last year – an increase of 20 percent compared to the previous year. In 2021, the grid feed-in was still around 45.3 million megawatt hours. “The share of photovoltaics in power generation as a whole has also increased,” the statistics office said.
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In 2022, 11 percent of the electricity fed into the grid in Germany came from photovoltaics – a new record. In 2021, photovoltaics accounted for 9 percent of all electricity generation. The previous record month for solar power in Germany was June 2022: With almost 7.7 million megawatt hours, a fifth of the electricity fed in that month was generated with the help of photovoltaic systems, the Federal Office determined.
The Federal Association of the Solar Industry considers it possible to expand the solar share of energy consumption to 30 percent within ten years. In the case of private property owners, there has been a fourfold increase in installed solar power output over the past four years. There is potential above all on commercial roofs.
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