Solar at 34.7 GW and wind at 13.6 GW drive 91% renewables, pushing 15.9 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 59%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
13.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.7 GW
Solar
58.9 GW
Total generation
+15.8 GW
Net export
9.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 237.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
61
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.7 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, covering roughly 59% of the composition from foreground to mid-ground, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse white light. Wind onshore 7.8 GW appears as a long line of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on low ridges in the right-middle distance, rotors turning slowly in a light breeze. Wind offshore 5.8 GW is depicted as a cluster of larger turbines visible on the far-right horizon above a faintly suggested distant coastline. Biomass 4.1 GW sits as a modest industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a small steam vent in the left-middle ground among trees. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, low steam plumes rising lazily, appearing small and subdued. Natural gas 2.1 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single exhaust stack and minimal flue beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the distant left background. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers, its plume nearly invisible. The sky is fully overcast at 98% cloud cover — a thick, luminous white-grey blanket of stratus — but daylight is strong and even at 1 PM, with diffuse brightness flooding everything; no direct sun disc visible but the clouds glow from behind with bright midday energy. Temperature 9.3 °C: early spring vegetation — bare-branched deciduous trees with first green buds, fresh grass emerging in pale green patches, muddy brown earth visible between PV rows. Low price atmosphere: the scene is calm, spacious, open, the overcast gentle rather than threatening, conveying abundance and ease. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with soft aerial perspective toward the horizon — yet each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, PV module wiring, cooling tower hyperbolic curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.