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Press release No. 150 of 14 April 2023 Timber logged remaining at high level - 78.7 million cubic metres in 2022
In 2022, a total of 78.7 million cubic metres of timber was logged in German forests. The amount of timber logged dropped by 5.1% from the record high of 83.0 million cubic metres seen in 2021, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). …
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Press release No. 090 of 9 March 2023 Electricity production in 2022: coal accounted for a third, wind power for a quarter
As in the preceding years, coal was the main energy source in electricity production in Germany in 2022. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that one third (33.3%) of the electricity produced in Germany and …
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Press release No. N 012 of 1 March 2023 In 2022, 87% of the imported photovoltaic power stations came from China
From Germany's perspective, China is by far the most important country of origin of photovoltaic power stations. Roughly 87% of the photovoltaic power stations imported to Germany in 2022 came from the People's Republic. The Federal Statistical …
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Press release No. 546 of 19 December 2022 New record volume of household waste generated in 2021
The volume of waste produced by households in Germany continued to rise in 2021. 483 kilograms of household waste per capita were collected according to provisional data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). This was an increase by 6 …
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Press release No. 542 of 16 December 2022 Household consumption of housing energy down 0.9% in 2020
Households in Germany consumed less housing energy in the first Covid-19 year of 2020 than in 2019 although people spent more time at home on account of the pandemic. The temperature adjusted consumption of housing energy amounted to a total of 715 …
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Press release No. 530 of 13 December 2022 Energy consumption in industry up 4.6% in 2021 on the previous year
In 2021, the German industry consumed 3,918 petajoules of energy. That was an increase of 4.6% from 2020, the first Covid-19 year, and of 2.6% compared with 2019. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the major part was used for …
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Press release No. 524 of 9 December 2022 Potential greenhouse effect of fluorinated greenhouse gases used in 2021 down 9% on 2020
The potential greenhouse effect of the fluorinated greenhouse gases used in Germany in 2021 (FCs, HFCs, blends) fell by 9% on 2020. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the volume of fluorinated greenhouse gases used declined …
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Press release No. 518 of 7 December 2022 Electricity production in the 3rd quarter of 2022: coal-generated electricity up 13.3% on the same period a year earlier
More than a third (36.3%) of the electricity produced and fed into the grid in Germany in the third quarter of 2022 came from coal-fired power plants (third quarter of 2021: 31.9%). Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis …
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Press release No. 510 of 2 December 2022 Energy consumption in transport down by a fifth in 2020
Transport was responsible for a good fifth (21.4%, or 2,562 petajoules) of German energy consumption in 2020. Energy consumption in transport thus dropped by 18.4% compared with 2019, when it had accounted for nearly a fourth (24.1%) of total energy …
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Press release No. 460 of 31 October 2022 Household gas prices up 17.7% in 1st half of 2022
Households in Germany paid an average 8.04 cents per kilowatt hour of natural gas in the first six months of 2022. Consumers were charged an average 33.50 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity. Gas prices thus increased by 17.7% and electricity …
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Press release No. 437 of 12 October 2022 CO2 emission intensity of German businesses decreased again in 2020
The total CO2 emission intensity of all economic sectors amounted to 205 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2) per 1,000 euros of gross value added in 2020, which is 8.4% less than a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports …
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Press release No. 423 of 6 October 2022 Coach industry 2020 and 2021: number of passengers down 77% from before the pandemic
Much smaller numbers of people travelled longer distances by coach in the Covid years of 2020 and 2021 than before the pandemic. The number of coach passengers (excluding regular services) was down by more than three fourths (-77%) in each of the two …
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Press release No. 418 of 4 October 2022 Electric mobility accounting for almost 30% of turnover in air quality control
In 2020, the establishments of the industry and service sectors in Germany generated a turnover of roughly 11.7 billion euros from goods and services for air quality control, or 14.8% of total turnover in environmental protection (78.9 billion …
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Press release No. 415 of 30 September 2022 Structural survey of forestry holdings, 2022: 43% of German forests privately owned
There are approximately 10.2 million hectares of wooded area in Germany, according to the first comprehensive structural survey of forestry holdings conducted in 2022. 4.4 million hectares, or 43% of the wooded area, are owned by roughly 760,000 …
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Press release No. 409 of 26 September 2022 Number of green jobs up 2.0% in 2020
In 2020, approximately 311,000 people (measured in full-time equivalents) in Germany had green jobs and produced goods and services to protect the environment. Compared with 2019, the number of green jobs rose by 6,000, or 2.0%, according to the …
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Press release No. 405 of 22 September 2022 Industry increases environmental investments by 3.6% in 2020
Enterprises in industry (excluding construction) invested just under 12.1 billion euros in environmental protection in Germany in 2020. That was 13.5% of their total investments. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that industry thus …
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Press release No. 401 of 21 September 2022 Number of bus and rail passengers up by just over a third in the 1st half of 2022
Considerably more passengers used regular bus or rail transport services in the first half of 2022 than in the same period a year earlier. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of passengers …
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Press release No. N 057 of 12 September 2022 Petrol and diesel fuel cost more in Germany again than in all neighbouring EU countries
As the fuel discount ended, motor fuel prices in Germany went up once more, with filling stations in Germany again charging more for petrol and diesel fuel recently than the petrol stations in all EU countries neighbouring Germany. Drivers in Germany …
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Press release No. 377 of 8 September 2022 9-euro ticket no longer on offer: rail travel back to pre-crisis level
When the 9-euro ticket for all of Germany was available from June to August 2022, people much more frequently took the train to travel distances of 30 kilometres and over than in the same period of 2019. The number of rail journeys recorded per day …
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Press release No. N056 of 8 September 2022 Gas heating planned for just under 16% of residential buildings approved in the 1st half of 2022
Gas for heating is becoming less important when new residential buildings are planned in Germany. 16.2% of the approximately 60,200 residential buildings approved in the first six months of 2022 will be heated primarily with gas, according to the …
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Press release No. 374 of 7 September 2022 Electricity production in the 1st half of 2022: coal-generated electricity up 17.2% on the same period a year earlier
Just under a third (31.4%) of the electricity produced and fed into the grid in Germany in the first half of 2022 came from coal-fired power plants. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that coal-generated …
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Press release No. 352 of 18 August 2022 Good apple yield expected for 2022: ten-year average likely to be exceeded by 8.2%
Apples remain by far the largest group of orchard fruit harvested in Germany. The fruit growers expect a good apple yield of approximately 1,051,000 tonnes in 2022. Based on an estimate of July 2022, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports …
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Press release No. N 050 of 2 August 2022 13.7 million employees used the tax break for commuters in 2018
In the debate about providing relief for rising petrol prices, consideration is also being given to increasing the tax break for commuters. Based on tax declaration data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that roughly 13.7 million …
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Press release No. N048 of 29 July 2022 June 2022: number of air passengers more than tripled compared with June 2021
Approximately 16.3 million air passengers arrived at, or departed from, the 23 largest commercial airports in Germany in June 2022. Their number has more than tripled (+215.1%) compared with June 2021, according to the Federal Statistical Office ( …
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Press release No. N 044 of 21 July 2022 Facts on gas supply: natural gas is major energy source for industry and households
Since war broke out in Ukraine, attention has focused on the gas supply in Germany. This is the more so as hardly any natural gas from the Russian Federation has been delivered to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline since 11 July. Maintenance work …
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Press release No. 293 of 11 July 2022 Environmental industry: protection of species and landscapes accounting for only 0.4% of total turnover in 2020
Establishments of the industry and service sectors in Germany generated a turnover of approximately 305 million euros in 2020 from goods, services and construction operations for the protection of species and landscapes. The Federal Statistical …
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Press release No. 269 of 28 June 2022 Environmental protection as an economic factor: turnover up 7.2% in 2020
The establishments of the industry and service sectors in Germany generated a turnover of 78.9 billion euros from goods, services and construction operations for environmental protection in 2020. That is a 7.2% increase on a year earlier. The number …
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Press release No. N 039 of 27 June 2022 Petrol and diesel fuel currently more expensive in most countries neighbouring Germany
Petrol and diesel fuel cost less at German petrol stations recently than in most of the countries neighbouring Germany, or roughly the same, although motor fuel prices had been rising again after the “fuel discount” was introduced on 1 June 2022. …
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Press release No. 263 of 23 June 2022 Strongest greenhouse gas: purchases of sulphur hexafluoride up 1.4% in 2021
Substances affecting the climate have an impact on global warming and contribute to climate change. The strongest greenhouse gas known is sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), whose greenhouse potential is about 23,500 times the climate impact of carbon …
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Press release No. N 037 of 21 June 2022 2.2 million photovoltaic power stations installed in Germany
Increasing numbers of enterprises and households use solar energy for electricity production. In March 2022, there were 2.2 million photovoltaic power systems installed on roofs or the ground, providing a total net capacity of 58,400 megawatts. The …
