Overview
- Total electricity generation was 98.3 billion kWh in the quarter, up 2.0% from a year earlier.
- Wind supplied 26.8% and solar 24.1% of domestic output, both setting record shares for a third quarter.
- Coal’s share fell to 20.6% on a 2.2% drop in output, while gas-fired generation rose 8.1% to a 12.0% share.
- Physical imports fell 11.9% to 20.7 billion kWh and exports rose 5.9% to 12.5 billion kWh, cutting the import surplus by 30.3% to 8.2 billion kWh.
- Destatis counts only power fed into the public grid, and growing private PV self-consumption—estimated at about 17% of household PV output last year—reduces reported injections; the government has approved new gas plants to ensure capacity as coal retires.