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Wind power turbine fleet output grows 25 pct in Germany over five years
From January to September 2023, wind turbines fed almost 89.9 million megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity into Germany’s power grid. This was 25 per cent more than in the same period in 2018. Only in the first three quarters of 2020 was the grid feed-in from wind turbines even higher at 92.3 million MWh, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports. In September 2023, approximately 31,000 offshore and onshore wind turbines with a total nominal output of almost 68,400 megawatts (MW) were installed. Since 2018, the nominal output increased by 16 percent, while the number of wind turbines rose significantly less ... (full story)