On 4 November 2015, the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) announced in a joint press release that, according to their estimations, renewable energies are expected to cover around 33% of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2015.
According to ZSW and BDEW, solar, wind and other renewable sources will have generated some 193 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity by the year's end. This is around one-fifth more than in the previous year. With a total of some 161 billion kWh, renewable energies accounted for around 27% of gross electricity consumption in 2014.
ZSW and BDEW also stated that the amount of electricity produced by wind power and photovoltaic systems, especially, has increased markedly. Wind turbines had generated 63 billion kWh of energy in the year to date on October 31, 2015, a remarkable 47% increase over the figure for the same period in 2014. Solar systems produced 35 billion kWh of power in the first ten months of 2015, matching the entire previous year's yield with two months to spare, despite the fact that solar production capacity has only increased moderately from last year.
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