{"id":65575,"date":"2023-08-04T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65575"},"modified":"2023-08-04T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T10:38:21","slug":"german-energy-use-drops-7-in-h1-amid-high-prices-ageb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65575","title":{"rendered":"German energy use drops 7% in H1 amid high prices \u2013 Ageb"},"content":{"rendered":"

German energy use drops 7% in H1 amid high prices \u2013 Ageb<\/a><\/h3>\n

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(Montel) Primary energy consumption in Germany fell 7% to 1,545 TWh in the first six months of the year, energy statistics group Ageb said on Wednesday, pointing to high energy prices and a weak economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the assessment of Ageb, the high energy prices as well as the weak economic development are responsible for the considerable decline in consumption,\u201d Ageb said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In terms of electricity consumption, Ageb reported a decline of 6.2% to 251 TWh, with the share coming from renewable sources rising from 49.3% to 52%. Green power use, meanwhile, rose by 0.6% to 306.4 TWh.<\/p>\n

Germany aims for a share of renewable energy of at least 80% of gross electricity consumption by 2030.<\/p>\n

Fossil fuels plunge, emissions fall<\/strong>
\nAccording to the report, lignite saw the greatest decline in consumption, falling by 18% year on year to 130.3 TWh.<\/p>\n

Among other fossil fuels, hard coal consumption fell by 10.8% to 138.9 TWh, with the use in power plants dropping by almost 19%.<\/p>\n

Germany plans to phase out all coal in power generation by 2038 at the latest, while utility RWE last week reported a 40% year-on-year drop in lignite-fired output in the\u00a0second quarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Natural gas consumption also fell, sliding 10.1% to 403.9 TWh, with Ageb citing flagging demand from the industrial sector as well as households. Accordingly, electricity generation from natural gas fell by 4%, district heating generation by 2%.<\/p>\n

The declining consumption of fossil fuels saw energy-related carbon emissions fall by more than 8% in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period last year, Ageb\u2019s preliminary data showed, corresponding to a reduction of 28m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Germany exported a net 3.1 TWh of electricity in H1 2023, down from 17.3 TWh in the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Last year, primary energy consumption fell by 5.4% to 3,269 TWh \u2013 the lowest level\u00a0since reunification<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German energy use drops 7% in H1 amid high prices \u2013 Ageb Photo: Shutterstock.com (Montel) Primary energy consumption in Germany fell 7% to 1,545 TWh in the first six months of the year, energy statistics group Ageb said on Wednesday, pointing to high energy prices and a weak economy. \u201cAccording to the assessment of Ageb, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1103,1108,1015,359,33891,33890],"class_list":["post-65575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-electricity","tag-energy-use","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-germany","tag-julia-demirdag","tag-montel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65576,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65575\/revisions\/65576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}