The industrial companies in Saxony-Anhalt consumed a little less electricity in 2020 than in the previous year.
As the State Statistical Office announced on Wednesday in Halle, it was 10.5 billion kilowatt hours.
That was 0.8 percentage points less than in 2019. With a share of 14.5 percent of total energy consumption in industry, electricity was the second most important energy source after natural gas.
Halle - Almost 40 percent of electricity consumption (around 4 billion kilowatt hours) in 2020 was accounted for by the chemical industry, followed by the food and feed industry (11 percent) and the glass, ceramics, stone and earth industries (9 percent).
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A third of the approximately 1400 industrial companies surveyed by the statisticians stated that they generate electricity themselves.
The majority (72.7 percent) of the electricity was produced on the basis of fossil raw materials such as coal, oil, gas and industrial waste.
According to the information, the industrial companies obtained almost a third of their own electricity from renewable energies.
These include photovoltaic systems that use the power of the sun, as well as biomass and bio-waste.
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