Renewable energies are expected to cover around 33 percent of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2015, according to an initial estimate made by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). This means that solar, wind and other renewable sources will have generated some 193 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity by the year's end. This is around one-fifth more than in the previous year. With a total of some 161 billion kWh, renewable energies accounted for around 27 percent of gross electricity consumption in 2014.
