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Expansion of renewable electricity generation

In six years, Austria is supposed to produce only renewable electricity. How close are we to this goal?

Data Notes and Methodology:

The national expansion targets are anchored in the EAG (Renewable Expansion Act), the first version of which came into effect on July 27, 2021. In order to represent national production by energy source as close to real-time as possible, we do not rely on Statistics Austria data for wind and hydropower (see below for which data sources we use instead). Therefore, there may be slight deviations in our representations and calculated targets for 2030 compared to other data sources. For PV, we unfortunately cannot show daily updated data, as ENTSOE only shows what is fed into the grid, not what is generated and consumed on-site. Therefore, starting from 2023, we rely on E-control data, which are resolved on a monthly basis. The E-control data also estimate self-consumption.

The expansion tracker was originally developed by Johannes Schmidt and adapted for the Climate Dashboard. The inspiration for the Renewable Share Tracker comes from Christoph Dolna-Gruber.

Dataset Data Source Website Update
Wind Power ENTSOE Daily
Photovoltaics (PV) Until 2022 annually: Market Statistics
From 4/2023 monthly: E-CONTROL		 Monthly
Hydropower E-CONTROL Monthly
Biomass E-CONTROL Annually
Expansion Goals of the Federal States

The expansion targets of the federal states were published in the respective climate and energy plans or made available to us on request. The list of all sources and all expansion targets is in this Google Spreadsheet and is updated with new publications.

Historical Federal State Power Generation

Statistics Austria > Energy Balances > Further Data > Energy Balances of Federal States

Potentials of the Federal States

The following studies were used for the potentials:
PV: Federal Environment Agency (2023), Wind: Energiewerkstatt (2023) and IG Windkraft, Hydropower: Federal Environment Agency (2023). The exact sources are stored in this document: EE Potentials

Are there new expansion targets or has a new climate plan been released? All expansion data were checked for currentness in August 2024. We want to keep the dataset as up-to-date as possible. You can let us know by email if there are newer data. 

Share of Renewables in the Daily Grid Load in Austria

The data comes from the page Energy-charts, which is managed by Prof. Burger from the Fraunhofer Institute. The original data comes from ENTSO-E.

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