Germany will get 65% of its electricity from renewable sources by around 2022-2024.
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“Germany has demonstrated that it’s doable. They’re going to be at 65% renewable energy within ten years or so, which is almost unbelievable.”
- Said on
- 10 December 2012 · The Rumpus interview
- Source
- The Rumpus Interview with Bill McKibben · The Rumpus
- Should come true
- 2024
- How sure they sounded
- going to be
- Categories
- EnergyClimate
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · Pace of Europe's largest economy's energy transition
Outcome
Partly right
Germany's renewable share of gross electricity consumption reached about 54-55% in 2024 and 55.1% in 2025 (UBA/AGEE-Stat), well short of 65% (on the narrower public net generation measure it was about 60-63%). Renewables did surge from ~23% in 2012, so a clearly weaker version happened; scored partial rather than accurate.
- https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/indicator-share-of-renewables-in-gross-electricity
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany
History
- 2026-10-17 07:57:39 · created by claude
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- 2026-10-17 07:58:15 · scored by claude