Last year, 7.2 million people went to Oktoberfest. The event used up 2.8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity. That's 12% less than in 2022, but it's still a lot.
Now, let's look at electric cars. During the same time as Oktoberfest, all the public charging points in Munich only used 193,000 kilowatt-hours. DCS tracks 99% of Munich's public charging spots, so this number is pretty accurate.
Munich has the second-highest number of electric cars in Germany, right after Berlin. Some folks who went to Oktoberfest probably drove there in electric cars.
Jörg Reimann, the boss at DCS, said:
"If a major event with 14 times the electricity consumption of public charging does not cause the power grid to collapse, it will not happen as a result of the gradual increase in the proportion of electric vehicles. On the contrary: EVs will make a decisive contribution to stabilising the power grid in the future through vehicle-to-grid technology (i.e. feeding the energy stored in the batteries into the power grid) because they help to balance out the fluctuations in green power generation."
Source: Electrive