The Renewable Energy Sources Act or EEG (: Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) is a series of laws that originally provided a (FIT) scheme to encourage the generation of . The EEG 2014 specified the transition to an system for most technologies which has been finished with the current version EEG 2017.
[pdf] Renewable energy in Germany is mainly based on wind and biomass, plus solar and hydro. Germany had the world's largest photovoltaic installed capacity until 2014, and as of 2023 it has over 82 GW. It is also the world's third country by installed total wind power capacity, 64 GW in 2021 (59 GW in 2018 ) and second for offshore wind, with over 7 GW. Germany has been called "the world's first.
[pdf] accounted for an estimated 12.2% of in 2023, up from 1.9% in 2010 and less than 0.1% in 2000. Germany has been among the for several years, with total installed capacity amounting to 81.8 (GW) at the end of 2023. Germany's 974 watts of solar PV per capita (2023) is the third highest in the w.
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