""This will be especially true if political measures aimed at sufficiently expanding the power grid in Germany... drag on for too long," he said. Some 6.1 tera

""This will be especially true if political measures aimed at sufficiently expanding the power grid in Germany... drag on for too long," he said. Some 6.1 terawatt hours of electricity from renewables had to be curtailed in 2020, according to the most recent figures available. With an average consumption of around 2,500 kilowatt hours per year in a two-person household, this would have been enough to power around 2.4 million households. A spokesman for Germany's Federal Network Agency said it did not share the belief that "it will not be possible to expand the network in line with demand in the coming years". Only some aspects of the expansion are seeing delays, the spokesman said—mainly due to slow approval procedures and a lack of specialist companies to do the work. "