Solar at 40.5 GW dominates under clear skies, driving 84% renewables and 4.7 GW net exports at rock-bottom prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 60%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
84%
Renewable share
11.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.5 GW
Solar
67.7 GW
Total generation
+4.7 GW
Net export
10.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 258.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
113
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 40.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense plain of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their blue-black facets glinting sharply under brilliant, cloudless mid-morning sunshine. Wind onshore 7.6 GW appears as a row of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles on a gentle ridge behind the solar field, blades barely turning in the near-calm air. Wind offshore 3.6 GW is visible in the far distance as a cluster of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line above a sliver of northern sea. Brown coal 5.7 GW occupies the left background as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, flanked by a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a compact wood-fired plant with a modest stack and a pile of timber beside it, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.6 GW appears as a sleek combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, placed between the biomass plant and the coal towers. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular cooling tower, partially obscured behind the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small dam with cascading water at the far left edge of the painting. The sky is deep cerulean blue with zero clouds, the March sunlight strong but angled from the southeast, casting long westward shadows. Bare-branched deciduous trees and early spring grass at 6°C — pale green shoots just emerging from brown turf. The atmosphere is calm, luminous, open, and serene, reflecting the very low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a blue haze on the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel aluminium frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature and reinforced concrete texture. No text, no labels.