Germany’s solar power generation hits record

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.