The energy transformation in Germany has just reached a new record. In 2018, almost 40 percent of the generated energy came from renewable sources, 17 percent of which came from wind energy. Thus, wind energy contributes to the energy mix in about the same proportion as is to be expected under the wind conditions in Germany. This was determined by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, who compared the potential and the actually obtained energy output of the wind turbines.
Sonja Germer and Axel Kleidon, who conduct research at the Max Planck Institute for