Germany ranks as the seventeenth EU Member State in the 2025 edition of the European Bioenergy Day campaign, an annual initiative organized by Bioenergy Europe to highlight the growing importance of sustainable biomass in the energy mix of EU Member States.
November 20, 2025, marks Germany’s Bioenergy Day, indicating that bioenergy could meet the country’s energy demands for 42 days or the remainder of the 2025 calendar year, based on Eurostat’s figures for 2024.
Bioenergy Europe’s annual campaign provides key facts on biomass and the bioenergy industry. It celebrates people, projects, and companies that contribute to achieving European carbon neutrality goals across transportation, industry, space heating, and power, while ensuring energy security.
Powered by Bioenergy Europe, the campaign is amplified by national and international partners who support the idea that bioenergy is more than just a renewable energy source—it is a reliable pathway to achieving Europe’s renewable energy transition.
One of the EU’s industrial powerhouses, Germany’s nuclear- and coal phase-out in power generation hastened by finding alternatives to fossil gas as a direct consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has led to a renewed focus on energy efficiency, waste heat recovery, build-out of district heating, and a switch to renewable heat, including bioenergy in industry.
