Between 2000 and 2010 — under a looming urgency to secure energy supplies posed by the Schröder
nuclear phaseout — the share of renewables in Germany's
power profile soared from 6.4 % (37 TWh) to 17 % (103 TWh), and installed nameplate
capacities surged by almost 500 %, from 12 GW to 56 GW.