What Germany uses to generate electricity

Germany uses coal to generate electricity.

Currently Germany relies on coal for its electricity. Apart from wind power, thermal power is the most important source of electricity in Germany, which means burning coal. Of this, lignite generates about 16.9% and anthracite about 7.4%. By comparison, the latter is cleaner than the former, but it also still produces a fair amount of air pollution.

Germany will shut down its last three nuclear power plants by 2022 because it considers nuclear energy to be more hazardous to people, and 11 percent of the power shortfall will be made up by coal. And Germany's wind and hydroelectric power generation accounts for nearly 40 percent of the total, but is unstable.

On the other hand, Germany's coal reserves, mining costs are lower, even if there is pollution, compared with the nuclear hazard, they chose to coal instead of nuclear. Germany's share of natural gas-fired power generation is about 12.2 percent, and it is the world's largest importer of natural gas, mainly from Russia, the Netherlands and Norway.

Germany's future relies on:

According to Germany's plan, it will give up coal and nuclear power in the future, and fully promote renewable energy generation in 2030. For example, wind power, hydroelectric power, solar power and so on. If you want in 2023, to realize 80% of the power all from renewable energy, then the next to face a lot of technical difficulties.

But it is understood that Germany's renewable energy power generation program is being steadily built, and shows a rapid growth trend. According to the relevant news that at the end of 2020, 51% of Germany's power generation is provided by these renewable energy sources, the main power generation method for wind power. After all, Germany is rich in wind energy, these are for Germany's new energy generation provides the basis.