page_title: Electricity sector in Germany
section_title: Electricity prices
hierarchical_section_title: Electricity sector in Germany / Electricity prices
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Components German Electricity Price 2016 for households and small businesses (new Version 2017)
context_page_description: Germany's electrical grid is part of the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe. In 2019, Germany produced 516 TWh of electricity of which 46% was from renewable energy sources, 29% from coal, and 10% from natural gas. This is a major change from 2018, when a full 38% was from coal, only 40% was from renewable energy sources, and 8% was from natural gas.
  Even though renewables production increased significantly between 1991 and 2017, fossil power production remained at more or less constant levels. In the same period, nuclear power production decreased, much of the increase in renewables had to be spent to fill the gap left behind by closing nuclear power plants. Germany will phase-out nuclear power by 2022, meaning that future growth in renewables will be needed to fill the gap again. Germany also plans to phase out coal, but not until 2038.
context_section_description: German prices in 2017 were €29.16 cents per kwh for residential customers, an increase of 35% over 2008.
  German households and small businesses pay the second highest electricity price in Europe for many years in a row now. 
  More than half of the power price consists of components determined by the state. 
  These include charges for using power grids (24.6%), levies for financing investment in renewable energy (22.1%) and for other kinds of taxes (e.g. GST 16%).
caption: Components of the German Electricity Price for Households Source
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