FILE - Solar panels are installed at a floating photovoltaic plant on a lake in Haltern, Germany, Friday, April 1, 2022. Floating solar panel farms are attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
FRANKFURT: Germany’s thousands of solar panels set a new production record last Saturday.
Output reached as high as 40,919 megawatts early afternoon, according to data from the European Energy Exchange AG.
Germany is already the European leader in renewable energy.
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, the nation brought forward by more than a decade to 2035 its goal of getting to 100% renewable power.
BloombergNEF forecasts that wind and solar will reach 76% of total generation by 2030.
Germany holds Group of 20 policy crown as wind and solar power up, according to Bloomberg NEF.
Production yesterday was poised to peak at slightly lower levels than the record, but will approach that level again tomorrow, according to a Bloomberg model. — Bloomberg
