据WENews网站2019年1月6日休斯顿报道，德国有关研究机构周四公布的一项研究报告显示，可再生能源在2018年首次超过了煤炭，成为了德国的主要能源，占到德国发电总量的40%多一点。

这一转变标志着欧洲最大的经济体在能源结构改革中取得了进展，德国计划在2030年之前让可再生能源占到本国能源供应的65%，这是一场代价高昂的转型，因为该国将在2022年之前放弃核能，并正在制定有序的长期煤炭退出计划。

来自弗劳恩霍夫应用科学组织的这份研究报告表明，去年太阳能、风能、生物质能和水力发电机组的发电量增长了4.3%，达到219太瓦时(TWh)。德国去年来自绿色和化石燃料的总发电量为542太瓦时，其中燃煤发电量占到38%。

绿色能源在德国电力生产中所占的份额已从2010年的19.1%上升到了2017年的38.2%。

布鲁诺·伯格是弗劳恩霍夫研究报告的作者，他说今年这一比例将保持在40%以上。

李峻 编译自 WENews.com

原文如下：

Renewables Take Over as Germany's Main Energy Source

Renewables overtook coal as Germany's main source of energy for the first time last year, accounting for just over 40 percent of electricity production, research showed on Thursday.

The shift marks progress as Europe's biggest economy aims for renewables to provide 65 percent of its energy by 2030 in a costly transition as it abandons nuclear power by 2022 and is devising plans for an orderly long-term exit from coal.

The research from the Fraunhofer organisation of applied science showed that output of solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric generation units rose 4.3 percent last year to produce 219 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity. That was out of a total national power production of 542 TWh derived from both green and fossil fuels, of which coal burning accounted for 38 percent.

Green energy's share of Germany's power production has risen to 38.2 percent in 2017 from just 19.1 percent in 2010.

Bruno Burger, author of the Fraunhofer study, said it was set to stay above 40 percent this year.