TWIG - Germany is on track to shatter its own goal of producing 12.5 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and biomass by 2010.

Presuming that weather conditions and power use remain normal over the rest of the year, the proportion of electricity from renewable sources is estimated to reach 14 percent for the year 2007, according to the German Environment Ministry.

Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel attributed the success of renewable energy to the Renewable Energy Sources Act, a 2000 law that requires grid operators to by power from renewable sources at fixed prices. Gabriel said that this early success showed that Germany could far surpass its goal of producing twenty percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2020.