{"id":6565,"date":"2012-05-28T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:34","slug":"germany-reaches-solar-power-generation-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/germany-reaches-solar-power-generation-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Reaches Solar Power Generation Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ‘economic powerhouse’ can add solar to its epithet. Germany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solar power plants reached a generation milestone of 22 GW for a few hours last Friday. That equals to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity.
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\nAccording to a Reuters report<\/a>, that amount of power fed into the national grid on Saturday (May 26) met around 50 percent of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electricity needs.<\/p>\n

Germany is one of the most proactive countries in the world in the alternative energy<\/a> arena and its ambitious targets have been driving the growth of clean energy in the country. It reacted swiftly to the Fukushima nuclear disaster<\/a> last year. It switched off eight plants and will phase out another nine by 2022.<\/p>\n

At the same time of the year last year Germany was producing 14 GW. Its total installed capacity is 26 GW.<\/p>\n

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