Last year, electricity consumption in Germany fell noticeably.
Electricity production, on the other hand, increased, as the Federal Network Agency announced on Wednesday.
According to the supervisory authority, a total of 482 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity were consumed in Germany in 2022, four percent less than in the previous year.
At the same time, however, electricity production increased by 0.4 percent to almost 507 TWh.
Because Germany exported significantly more electricity than in the previous year.
One terawatt hour equals one billion kilowatt hours.
The share of electricity generated from renewable energies in consumption was 48.3 percent in 2022, well above the previous year's level of 42.7 percent.
Wind turbines made the largest contribution to this with a share of 25.9 percent of the electricity generated.
Photovoltaics covered 11.4 percent and biomass 8.2 percent.
Hydropower and other renewables accounted for the remaining 2.8 percent.
Overall, the generation from renewable energies in 2022 was 233.9 TWh, around 8.5 percent above the previous year's value.
Generation from conventional energy sources totaled 273 TWh last year, a decrease of 5.7 percent compared to the previous year.
The main reason for this was the decline in electricity generation from nuclear energy by almost 50 percent after the Grundremmingen C, Brokdorf and Grohnde nuclear power plants were shut down at the end of 2021. In contrast, electricity generation from natural gas increased by 1.7 percent and generation from lignite by 5.4 percent and by hard coal by 21.4 percent.