Offshore wind farms in Germany increased their production of electricity over 18.8 Terawatt hours (TWh), which equals to 8% increase in comparison to 17.4TWh generated in the German North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 2017, according to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
Germany aspires to increase its offshore wind capacity to 20 gigawatts by 2030, according to a law the German Government passed in December.
Specifically, North Sea wind farms generated 16.6 TWh, with the 2.2 TWh being generated from the Baltic Sea.
This increase in production occurred because of the newly added capacity from projects, as the 450MW Borkum Riffgrund 2 and the 396MW Merkur in the North Sea, and the 385MW Arkona and the 350MW Wikinger in the Baltic Sea, which started delivering electricity or were officially commissioned in 2018.
Offshore wind is one of the major factors Germany uses to produce renewable energy and provides more than 40% of the country’s overall annual power production for the first time ever.
Finally, the renewable energy sources supplied 40.4% of Germany’s total electricity production in 2018.
