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Around 70 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from stationary installations in Germany subject to emissions trading come from energy installations, and nearly 30 percent from industrial plants. The 2018 emissions of power plants decreased by about four percent to 298 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. The reason why is the considerable increase in feed-in of wind and solar power, which led to a decline in the use of lignite, hard coal and natural gas for power generation. Total power generation was down slightly. The relatively steep decline in emissions in the energy industry is thus a continuing trend. Emissions in the energy-intensive industries in the period 2013-2017 varied between 123 and 126 million tonnes of CO2eq and remained at a similar high level of 124 million tonnes of CO2eq in 2018. The decline in total ETS emissions in Germany since 2013 is almost entirely traceable to the downward trend in emissions from power plants.
