The energy consumption of private households in Germany has been increasing for years. This trend continued in 2019, as figures from the Federal Statistical Office show.
People in Germany have once again used more energy to live. The Federal Statistical Office put the demand in 2019 at 772 billion kilowatt hours.
Adjusted for temperature effects, that was 1.1 percent or 8.8 billion kilowatt hours more than in the previous year, as the Wiesbaden authority announced on Friday. The upward trend thus continued: In 2019, the energy consumption of private households was 10 percent higher than in 2012. Before that, it had fallen by 14.5 percent between 2000 and 2012.
In 2019, heating accounted for the largest share of energy consumption with almost 71 percent, a good six percentage points less than in 2000. Tending to increase temperatures do not play a role in the calculation, but rather more efficient heating systems, it said. Households needed a little more energy for hot water (almost 15 percent) and household and electrical appliances (7.8). According to statisticians, energy for cooking and lighting follows behind.
In 2019, gas remained the dominant source of energy for living, with a share of more than 41 percent, ahead of electricity and mineral oil. Renewable energies gained slightly in importance with a good 15 percent.
On average, each of the almost 41 million households in Germany consumed 17,678 kilowatt hours in 2019. The more people live together, the greater the savings.
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