Germany adds 944 MW of solar, 298 MW of onshore wind in March

• Germany connected 943.7 MW of new solar installations to the power grid in March as well as deployed 298.4 MW of new onshore wind capacity, according to data released by the Federal Network Agency.

The development of solar power is gathering further energy but needs to speed up even more to 1,557 MW of monthly setups to reach the 2030 target. The majority of the new solar systems in March were installed under the EEG system-- 608 MW get state aids with rooftop installments representing 589.4 MW. Further 133.6 MW stand for tasks awarded in tenders by the Federal Network Agency. With a complete capacity of 193.3 MW, ground-mounted solar parks accounted for the majority of the 203.5 MW of solar systems that were included without state aids.

Onshore wind likewise continued to grow in March, reaching the second-highest level over the last twelve months. The release price must, however, dual to 607 MW each month to ensure that the target of 115 GW in 2030 is gotten to.

In the initial three months of 2023, Germany gave permits for the installation of 335 wind turbines of a mixed 1,853 MW with March seeing an acceleration with the approval of 1,056 MW of new capacity.

At the end of March, Germany had 70.15 GW of solar, 58.54 GW of onshore wind and also 8.27 GW of offshore wind capacity in operation.

The table listed below gives even more details about net new capacity set up in Germany in the very first quarter of 2023.

On a federal-state level, Bavaria was a leader in solar energy release with 598.4 MW added in the first three months of the year. The southern state, nonetheless, dragged in terms of onshore wind energy with only 18.3 MW of new wind turbines. Schleswig-Holstein in the wind-swept north topped the checklist with 159.7 MW of freshly set up onshore wind in the very first quarter of 2023.