Renewable energies are still on the advance: Last year, according to information from BDEW, vaguely 15 per cent of all electricity consumption was covered with regenerative energies. That was 91.0 billion kilowatt hours (billion kWh).

The largest share of this was once again wind energy that made up 40.4 billion kWh or 7 percent by itself. In addition to so-called Repowering, the exchange of older for new, more efficient wind power plants, the trend towards wind power will continue to increase, especially as a result of offshore expansion. Overall, almost 50 offshore wind farms are scheduled to be constructed in the transpower grid connection area in the North Sea alone. In its forecasts for the output of offshore wind farms in the North and Baltic Seas, the German government anticipates an output of up to 10.000 MW by 2020.
The grid connection for the first German offshore wind farm alpha ventus was completed in May 2009.