Installed capacity — Germany
What Germany could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total |
|---|---|---|
| Solar | 104,030+17,078 | 35.3% |
| Onshore wind | 67,923+4,520 | 23.0% |
| Natural gas | 37,469−1,128 | 12.7% |
| Other sources | 16,385+2,698 | 5.6% |
| Hard coal | 15,308−643 | 5.2% |
| Lignite | 14,808−370 | 5.0% |
| Pumped-storage hydro | 9,402+18 | 3.2% |
| Offshore wind | 9,226+11 | 3.1% |
| Biomass | 8,856+5 | 3.0% |
| Run-of-river hydro | 4,116+193 | 1.4% |
| Oil | 3,930−2,984 | 1.3% |
| Waste | 1,953+66 | 0.7% |
| Hydro reservoir | 1,460 | 0.5% |
| Geothermal | 76+30 | 0.0% |
How much ran at once
The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.
Of 294,941 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 170,187 MW — 58% of the fleet, on 27/08/2026, 12:45:00.
- Solar 117,317/ 104,030 MW 113%
- Wind 107,123/ 77,149 MW 139%
- Gas 39,933/ 41,399 MW 96%
- Coal 42,021/ 30,116 MW 140%
- Other 2,582/ 18,414 MW 14%
- Hydro 18,033/ 14,978 MW 120%
- Biomass 10,189/ 8,856 MW 115%
The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.
How it changed, year by year
Total installed capacity, from 2025 to 2026.
- 2026 294,941MW +19,494
- 2025 275,447MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.
Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.