Wind-based electricity generation Germany

In Germany the wind is overtake water as the most important sustainable source of electricity. Just around one hundred twenty years ago, Germany commissioned the first hydroelectric plants, and water was the most important green source of electricity in Germany. However, 2002, wind blew away water as the most important sustainable source of electricity. At the end of September 2002 year, there were 14,467 wind turbines with a capacity of 13,404 MW installed in Germany. The 2002 wind-based electricity generation in Germany was about 25 billion kilowatt hours or for the first time more than the hydroelectric plants can achieve. 

The future development of electricity demand in Germany corresponds to the assumptions for the total final electricity consumption in scenario 2011 A in [14], according to which electricity demand decreases by 25 % between 2010 and 2050. For the whole period, annual transmission and distribution losses are taken into account with a blanket assumption of 15 TWh. The annual amounts of electricity generated from onshore and offshore wind, photovoltaics, hydropower, biomass, geothermal energy and fossil CHP are also based on scenario 2011 A [14]. In 2050, electricity generation from RES totals 427 TWh, whereas annual electricity demand amounts to 393 TWh. 

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