By 2015, Germany’s combined solar and wind capacity of nearly 84 gigawatts had surpassed the total installed in fossil fuel plants, and by March 2019 more than 20 percent of all electricity came from the new renewables—but electricity prices had more than doubled in 18 years, to €0.29/kWh. The EU’s largest economy thus has the continent’s second-highest electricity prices: only in heavily wind-dependent Denmark (in 2018, 41 percent of its generation was from wind) is the price higher, at €0.31/kWh.
