Business

Editor: Bruce Meng
7 Oct 2008 06:13:42 GMT

Oct 7 - Calls are growing in Germany for a reversal to the planned phase-out of all nuclear plants in Europe’s biggest energy-consuming nation.

Here is a breakdown of Germany’s power generation mix last year, showing the share of different fuels used to produce 2007’s 597 billion kilowatt hours of electricity.

Coal - 46 percent (of which 24 is domestic brown coal and 22 is mainly imported hard coal)

Nuclear - 22 percent*

Gas - 12 percent

Renewables - 14 percent of which:

Wind - 3 percent

Water - 7 percent

Biomass - 4 percent

Photovolataic - 0.5 percent

Others - 6 percent

* The share of nuclear in 2007 dropped to 22 percent of the total from 27 percent a year earlier, due to repair outages at several large units.

Source: preliminary data released by German energy industry association BDEW in Berlin. The figures allow for rounding errors.