Germany: the live status of the German electricity grid
Germany runs Europe's biggest economy on its biggest and most complex grid, split across four transmission operators (50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW) but traded as a single bidding zone with Luxembourg. It completed its nuclear phase-out in April 2023 and now leans on a mix of wind, solar, lignite/hard coal and gas, with heavy day-to-day swings driven by wind and solar output. It is not physically interconnected to Great Britain, so it is included here for comparison rather than as one of GB's own interconnector partners. Demand, generation, day-ahead price and generation mix below are live from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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Germany's grid swings hard between wind/solar surplus and dispatchable-generation-heavy periods - one of the most variable large grids in Europe as a result.
Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.
Generation mix over the last 24 hours
Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
History
Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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About the German grid
Germany's electricity system is coordinated across four regional transmission system operators - 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT and TransnetBW - trading as a single national bidding zone (paired with Luxembourg) inside the Continental Europe synchronous area. Since completing its long-planned nuclear phase-out in April 2023, Germany has leaned further on wind, solar, lignite and hard coal, plus gas for flexible backup, giving it one of the more carbon-intensive generation mixes among large Western European economies alongside one of the fastest-growing renewable buildouts.
Germany has no direct electrical interconnector with Great Britain - it trades instead with its many land and sea neighbours (France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Switzerland, Austria and the Nordic countries via subsea links). It is included on this site purely for cross-country comparison via the Comparisons page, not because of any GB grid relationship.
Records & context
- Solar output record50.4GW - 20 June 2025, 12.45pm to 1pm
- Onshore wind output record46.4GW - 26 October 2025
- Renewable share of generation~59% in both 2024 and 2025 (58.5-59.5% depending on the statistics body)
- Largest sources, 2025Wind first and, for the first time, solar second - ahead of lignite (Fraunhofer ISE, public net generation)
- Negative-price hours573 in 2025, up from 457 in 2024
- Nuclear phase-outComplete since 15 April 2023
Approximate renewable share of German generation by year - dipped in 2021, a low-wind year, recovering strongly since as wind and solar capacity has grown.
Sources: Fraunhofer ISE Energy-Charts 2025 review, Fraunhofer ISE, Bundesnetzagentur/SMARD, Destatis, BASE (nuclear phase-out). Last checked: 2 October 2026.
Data sources for Germany
The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover Germany, so this page draws on a different source instead:
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected transmission system operator to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Germany's own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.
Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity (g/kWh), and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow, so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.