{"id":4218,"date":"2024-06-20T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:20:05","slug":"germany-leads-europe-in-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/germany-leads-europe-in-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Leads Europe in Solar Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"infographicArticle-31508\" class=\"article article--infographic article--infographic31508 row padding-top-15\" aria-labelledby=\"infographicArticleTitle\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<footer class=\"article__meta\">\n<div class=\"article__topic showMobile text--wordBreak\">Based on the International Renewable Energy Agency&#8217;s 2022 assessment, Germany emerged as Europe&#8217;s leader in solar energy with an installed photovoltaic capacity of approximately 67 gigawatts. This capacity surpassed Italy&#8217;s, which ranked second with 25 gigawatts. Despite this leadership, Germany&#8217;s solar growth has been slower compared to other European nations over the past decade, as depicted in our graphic.<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row margin-bottom-15\">\n<div class=\"width70 padding-right-15\">\n<div id=\"infographicDescriptionLong\" class=\"article__contentText responsiveText responsiveText--underlinedLinks\">\n<p>From 2013 to 2022, Germany&#8217;s photovoltaic capacity grew at an average annual rate of six percent. Among the top eight European countries in solar capacity, Germany ranks seventh, ahead of Italy. Poland leads this group with a remarkable annual growth rate of 137 percent since 2013, nearly tripling its solar potential from 2020 to 2022 alone. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom follow with growth rates of 40 percent and 17 percent respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, the installed and grid-connected photovoltaic systems reached one terawatt in 2022, constituting about one-third of all renewable energy capacity and 12 percent of total electricity generation capacity. China significantly contributed to this growth, accounting for approximately 57 percent of global solar capacity, with a notable presence in Germany&#8217;s solar panel imports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"width30 padding-left-15 hideMobile\">\n<div class=\"article__contentEditor\">\n<div class=\"box contactBox sidebar float-s--none\">\n<div class=\"contactBox\">\n<div class=\"cInfo\">\n<p class=\"contactWorkingHours\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__img margin-bottom-5n\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/31508.jpeg\" alt=\"Infographic: Germany Is Europe's Solar Energy Front-Runner | Statista\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" data-open-modal=\"#infographicModal\" data-gtm=\"infographic__graphic\" aria-describedby=\"infographicDescriptionShort infographicDescriptionLong\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"article__contentGraphic panel-box panelBox--noPadding width100\">\n<div class=\"row flex\">\n<div class=\"flex_item width70 border-right-gray10-1 bg-white-smoke\">\n<div class=\"hideNoscript hidePrint\">Description<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_item width30\">\n<div class=\"panelBox__section panelBox__section--border article__graphicText\">\n<p id=\"infographicDescriptionShort\" class=\"article__graphicDescription\">This chart shows the European countries with the highest total photovoltaic capacity in 2022 (in gigawatts).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"box-container\">\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statista<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}