Use of windpower and solar energy by federal state
in output (MW)
Schleswig-
Solar energy
Wind power
1,408Holstein
3,753
Mecklenburg
West Pommerania
2,278
1,099
35
Hamburg
143 36
32.5 %
56
Bremen
In first-half 2015,
32.5 percent of the
electrical energy
consumed was generated
by renewable sources.
Lower Saxony
7,617
3,258
SaxonyAnhalt
1,561
3,921
4,102
2,712
3,430
1,088
1,662
1,696
1,414
1,059
907 Thuringia
RhinelandPalatinate
202
4,645
Saarland
At year-end 2014 1.5 million solar PV plants were
installed in Germany.
Power grid
Electricity is distributed
to the individual regions
via the high-voltage
power grid.
Saxony
2,313
366
1.5 million
5,099
1,027
Hesse
At year-end 2014 a total
of 25,000 wind-power
plants were installed in
Germany.
Berlin
Brandenburg
North RhineWestphalia
25,000
2
69
1,035
10,437
571
Bavaria
BadenWurttemberg
Substation
In a second substation
the high voltage is
stepped down to
230 volts.
Households
A 5 MW windpower plant can
supply electricity to some
4,900 households a year – and
to about 14,600 persons.
Up to 380,000 V
230 V
12.3 billion euros 3.1 billion euros
for new windpower
plants (2014)
for new solar-power
plants (2014)
1.79
35,000
million kilometres of cable
for the power grid
kilometres
of “power highways”