Bioenergy Application - Energy - Bioenergy
Biomass has grown to one of the most important renewable energy sources in Germany after growing steadily since the nineties. As a result, the country is Europe`s largest consumer of bioenergy and is setting benchmarks especially in innovative technologies. Cellulosic ethanol, gasification, cogeneration and gas processing technologies for the feed-in of biogas into the natural gas grid are being developed in Germany.
Our Industry in Numbers
- Industry turnover 2016: EUR 12.05 billion
- Investments into new bioenergy plants , 2016: EUR 1.64 billion (Electricity: 0.26 bn€ / Heat: 1.38 bn€)
- Bioenergy share of electricity consumption in Germany, 2016: 8.6 % (51,6 TWh)
- Bioenergy share of heat consumption in Germany, 2016: 11.8 % (148,0 TWh)
- Bioenergy share of fuel consumption in Germany, 2016: 4.6 % (29,89 TWh)
- Bioenergy share of total renewable energy generation in Germany, 2016: 58.9 %
Market Potential
Since the 1990s, consumption of biomass in Germany has grown steadily. In 2012, bioenergy accounted for 7.0 percent of total final electricity consumption,9.4 percent of total final heat consumption (91% of total renewable heat) and 5.7 percent of total fuel consumption. The industry has set itself a number of concrete goals for the future: 18 percent of electricity, 15 percent of heat and 13 percent of fuel consumption should be generated from bioenergy sources by 2030.