Germany Leads in Sustainable Energy

Who would have thought that Germany would lead the world in renewables? Certainly, with all the initial development of those technologies taking place in the USA, you'd have to have faith in the German spirit to even dream they would be leaders. But, they clearly are, as Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Energy Needs From Renewable Energy : In the first quarter of 2014, renewable energy sources met a record 27 percent of the country’s electricity demand, thanks to additional installations and favorable weather. “Renewable generators produced 40.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, up from 35.7 billion kilowatt-hours in the same period last year,” Bloomberg reported. Much of the country’s renewable energy growth has occurred in the past decade and, as a point of comparison, Germany’s 27 percent is double the approximately 13 percent of U.S. electricity supply powered by renewables as of November 2013.

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