Today, Craig Morris explains our updated graphics on German energy consumption. Private consumers may support the further growth of renewables, but they also make up a relatively small part of total energy consumption. One of the conundrums in Germany is that more than 90 percent of the public generally supports the Energiewende in most polls. Yet only 22 percent of households (report in German) had switched to a provider of 100 percent green electricity, although they have all been able to for a decade and a half. Even worse, the news this month was that the number of households getting 100% green power fell by more than 10 percent from 2013 to 4.4 million in 2015. We will save the investigation into why that might be for a later post. Today, let’s investigate the breakdown of power consumption in Germany by consumer group. Germany now has roughly a third renewable electricity and will probably just barely fall short of the 2020 target of 35 percent renewable power as a share of demand this year. But … Continue reading What if all German households went renewable?