Germany nuclear power plant capacity
Germany nuclear power plant capacity stood at 0 GW in 2025, according to Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE – energy-charts.info. It is one of the indicators in the Installed conventional capacity table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 2002 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Installed conventional capacity table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal and nuclear | |||||||||||
| Nuclear | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.06 | 8.11 | 8.11 | 9.52 | 9.52 | 10.8 | 10.8 | |
| Lignite (brown coal) | 14.78 | 15.17 | 18.36 | 18.54 | 19.84 | 20.71 | 21.06 | 21.06 | 21.06 | 21.06 |
Understanding germany nuclear power plant capacity
Operating atomic generation infrastructure supplying the national grid is captured in this measure, evaluated in GW at the close of each calendar period. Unlike the fossil fuel categories in the thermal and nuclear group, this component counts baseload installations that do not rely on combustion. The figures encompass all commercial reactors holding an active license to feed electricity into the network. Decommissioned facilities, units in permanent cold shutdown, and specialized research reactors are entirely excluded from the aggregate.
Since the observations represent the fleet at a specific snapshot in time, short-term maintenance outages or temporary offline periods do not lower the registered capacity. Annual periodicity requires structural year-on-year analysis, making it impossible to track seasonal variations in operational status. Revisions rarely occur because commercial operating licenses provide definitive documentation. Analysts tracking the retirement of this infrastructure should note that capacity drops precisely when a plant officially loses its right to generate, which may lag behind the actual cessation of physical electricity production.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this count plants undergoing maintenance?
- Temporary outages do not reduce the installed measure as long as the commercial operating license remains valid.
- Are research reactors included in the total?
- Non-commercial facilities that do not feed electricity into the public grid are strictly excluded.
- When does a closing plant leave the statistics?
- A facility is removed from the total once its legal authorization to generate commercial power expires, regardless of its physical state.