Solar at 41.1 GW leads generation under cloudless skies, with coal and gas providing persistent thermal baseload and 7.6 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 12%
74%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.1 GW
Solar
69.5 GW
Total generation
+7.6 GW
Net export
74.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 374.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
184
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast central plain covered in thousands of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching toward the horizon, occupying roughly 60% of the canvas and glinting under intense midday spring sun. Brown coal 8.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the clear sky. Hard coal 5.1 GW appears just to their right as a dark industrial complex with conveyor belts, stockpiles of black coal, and tall brick chimneys trailing grey smoke. Natural gas 4.5 GW is rendered as a pair of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with sleek cylindrical exhaust stacks and thin heat-shimmer exhaust, positioned behind the solar field at center-left. Biomass 4.0 GW shows as a modest wood-clad power station with a tall stack and a pile of timber nearby, at center-right. Wind offshore 3.2 GW appears as a distant row of large white three-blade turbines on lattice-steel towers visible on the far-right horizon above a faint haze suggesting the North Sea. Wind onshore 2.4 GW is a smaller grouping of three-blade turbines on rolling hills at the right middle ground, their blades barely turning in the light breeze. Hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete run-of-river dam with white water spilling, tucked in a forested valley at far right. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous pale spring blue with the sun high and slightly south, casting short crisp shadows. The air has a subtle haze from the coal plumes drifting left. Vegetation is early spring — pale green buds on deciduous trees, fresh grass emerging, bare branches still visible. The atmosphere carries a faintly oppressive warmth despite the cool 6°C temperature, reflecting the moderate-to-firm electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to distant industrial horizons — yet every piece of engineering rendered with meticulous technical accuracy: turbine nacelles, rotor hubs, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT stainless exhaust cowls. No text, no labels.