How will the German Energiewende (transition to renewable energy) go in 2024?

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Gap to the grid expansion target of 2023 reduced to 5000km or less.

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The 13GW solar energy construction goal will be reached.

The current government is trying to expand renewables strongly as a response to the energy crisis and to tackle climate change. This question aims at electricity, not primary energy consumption.

Update 2024-09-12 (PST): Resolution will be based on the Bundesnetzagentur's monitoring report for 2024. (AI summary of creator comment)

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@Gideon37 Report is available: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2025/20250103_smard.html Renewables at 59%. Please also resolve the other options.

Also pinging @mods as creator is probably not around anymore. I think all remaining options resolve No, except not sure about the "Gap to the grid...", but presumably @marktwse knows.

@Primer resolved the 3 NOs. having issues getting the data on grid expansion. some articles are talking about projects stuck in limbo, others talk about how much has been approved, but I cant find data on the 2023 goals vs the 2024 shortfall

@Stralor okay, wait the 2023 goal was "more than 7500 km"

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@Stralor okay looks like the current running total is 16,800 km they want to approve. 2024 brought the total approved to 2,700. so do we use the 2023 target of ~7,500 or the up to date 16,800? and is the gap built or is the approved amount what we're measuring? I could go YES or NO here depending on all that

@Stralor ( https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2024/20241227_NetzausbauBilanz.html )

Bundesnetzagentur - Press - Looking back at 2024: energy transition makes further progress – significant steps forward in grid expansion

@marktwse What did you have in mind?

@Stralor Thanks!

opened a Ṁ100 NO at 50% order

@Gideon37 What source will you use for the 60% of gross electrical consumption? (Have been looking at the zeit.de Energiemonitor, but they seem to differ from their source, the Fraunhofer ISE (or I just couldn't find the correct data there))

@Primer you can find Bundesnetzagentur‘s monitoring report below, I intend to base the resolution on the report for 2024

bought Ṁ250 YES

@Gideon37 The 13GW solar energy construction goal can resolve Yes:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/energiemonitor-strompreis-gaspreis-erneuerbare-energien-ausbau

@Primer done

bought Ṁ10 NO

https://www.bundesrechnungshof.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/EN/2024/energiewende-en.html

Currently "grid expansion is 6,000 kilometres and seven years behind schedule."

Germany's net electricity generation was slighter lower in 2022 due to a drop in consumption. The share of renewables in gross electricity consumption was 45%, up from 40% in 2021. –Monitoring report 2023 from Bundesnetzagentur

I assume this is the metric we aim for with "total energy consumption".