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Leading Renewable Energy Brands in AI Search in Germany

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only Perplexity answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, NextEra Energy leads AI search visibility in Renewable Energy on Perplexity in Germany with a Goodie visibility score of 85.7, ahead of REC Group (84.1) and SunPower (82.9). The median score across the 10 ranked brands is 81.0, and a score above 77.4 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is balticwind.eu at 9.2% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 27.2%.

33k prompts · 2.5m AI answers · 12.1m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Renewable Energy · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
81.0
Half of the 10 ranked renewable energy brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 76.3
Score to enter the top 10
77.4
Clearing 77.4 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 3.6 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
7.2
A typical answer names seven brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 6.6
Citation mix
  • UGC 2%
  • Editorial 3%
  • Video 3%
  • Reference 14%
  • Other 78%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding renewable energy answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
27.2%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
55/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
33k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.5m
222k in October · ▼ 11.6% vs September
Citations parsed
12.1m
1m in October · ▲ 11.4% vs September
Brands observed
1,321
10 ranked here · 1,311 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Renewable Energy, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01NextEra Energy
85.7
10.5%Perplexity▲ 1.267landbase.com
02REC Group
84.1
10.4%Perplexity—67cptlenergy.com
03SunPower
82.9
10.2%Perplexity▼ 5.463cptlenergy.com
04Sungrow
82.2
10.1%Perplexity▲ 1.171landbase.com
05Enel
81.4
10.0%Perplexity—45gti.energy
06Panasonic
80.6
9.9%Perplexity—60cptlenergy.com
07Iberdrola
80.3
9.9%Perplexity—43gti.energy
08Vestas
79.2
9.7%Perplexity—49blackridgeresearch.com
09Siemens Gamesa
78.2
9.6%Perplexity—49blackridgeresearch.com
10Ørsted
77.4
9.5%Perplexity▲ 6.038gti.energy
10 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Renewable Energy
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01balticwind.eu
9.2%
—
02bdew.de
5.8%
—
03landbase.com
4.6%
▲ 2.9
04youtube.com
4.3%
—
05rwe.com
4.2%
—
06mordorintelligence.com
3.3%
—
07energydigital.com
3.0%
—
08blackridgeresearch.com
3.0%
—
09michigan.gov
2.9%
—
10owosso.mi.us
2.9%
—
Top 10 of 2k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Renewable Energy, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Solar and wind developers active in the region2562
02Solar panel manufacturers with proven durability3451
03Firms leading the global energy transition4248
04Clean energy companies scaling rapidly3635
05Welche Firmen für saubere Energie wachsen gerade richtig schnell?815
5 of 33k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Ørstedscore 77.4
▲ 6.0
NextEra Energyscore 85.7
▲ 1.2
Sungrowscore 82.2
▲ 1.1
Falling
SunPowerscore 82.9
▼ 5.4
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±3.4/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
43,222 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Renewable Energy, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States25K
02United Kingdom10K
03Japan2K
04Saudi Arabia1K
05Germany1K
06Australia952
07Canada887
08Egypt428
09France397
10United Arab Emirates259
11Italy201
12Singapore158
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

NextEra Energy leads Renewable Energy this edition with a visibility score of 85.7, ahead of REC Group at 84.1.

balticwind.eu is the most-cited source grounding renewable energy answers, at roughly 9.2% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 27.2% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked renewable energy brands is 81.0, and a score above 77.4 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Renewable Energy

Questions?
We Have
the Answers.

NextEra Energy currently leads AI search visibility in renewable energy with a Goodie visibility score of 85.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

balticwind.eu is the most-cited source in renewable energy AI answers, grounding roughly 9.2% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked renewable energy brands is 81.0. A score above 77.4 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.