Germany exported more electricity than it imported for the seventh consecutive year in 2012, despite an accelerated exit from nuclear power generation that included the immediate and permanent shut-down of nearly half of the country's atomic reactors in 2011, the national statistics office said Tuesday.
Germany exported more electricity than it imported for the seventh
consecutive year in 2012, despite an accelerated exit from nuclear power
generation that included the immediate and permanent shut-down of nearly half
of the country's atomic reactors in 2011, the national statistics office said
Tuesday.
In a written statement the Federal Statistics Office, Destatis, said that
Germany
exported around 22.8 terrawatt-hours of electricity more than it imported in
2012.
The main destinations for German-produced electricity were the
Netherlands
,
Switzerland
and
Austria
, said
the statistics office, citing data supplied by
Germany
's
four power transmission grid operators.
The main sources of power imports into
Germany
were
France
,
Denmark
and
the
Czech
Republic
, it
added.
The statistics office didn't provide any reasons for the continued power
exports, despite the fact that
Germany
shut
down eight of 17 nuclear reactors in the wake of the
Fukushima
disaster in
Japan
in
March 2011.
The rapid and unabated expansion of solar and wind power installations are
widely seen as the main reason for continued German electricity exports as well
as the sharp erosion of wholesale power prices under which many of Europe's
utilities are presently suffering.
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