Solar (33.6 GW) and wind (23.2 GW) dominate a 94% renewable midday grid, pushing prices negative.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 51%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Brown coal 6%
94%
Renewable share
23.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.6 GW
Solar
65.7 GW
Total generation
+0.7 GW
Net export
-1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.0°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
66% / 315.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
47
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Clean Hour
#2
Helle Brise
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Solar 33.6 GW dominates the centre and right as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, occupying roughly half the canvas; wind onshore 17.6 GW fills the upper-left and mid-ground as dozens of towering three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers with detailed nacelles, their blades turning in moderate breeze; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears on the far-left horizon as a cluster of offshore turbines rising from a distant grey-blue sea; brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the far left foreground as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with wispy white steam plumes drifting lazily upward; biomass 3.9 GW sits in the left-middle ground as a compact wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam and reservoir visible in a valley on the right background. The sky is partly cloudy at roughly 66% cloud cover, with broken cumulus allowing shafts of bright midday sunlight to pierce through and illuminate the solar arrays in patches of brilliant reflection — full daytime lighting, noon sun high at roughly 45° elevation. Temperature is a mild 10°C early spring: bare deciduous trees with the first hint of green buds, fresh grass emerging on hillsides, patches of old snow in shadowed north-facing slopes. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene — reflecting the negative electricity price — with soft pastel blues and gentle greens. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro from the broken cloud, meticulous technical accuracy in all engineering details of turbine rotors, PV panel frames, cooling tower concrete ribbing, and power lines receding into the misty distance. No text, no labels.