Solar at 32.3 GW drives 91% renewable share and deeply negative prices under full cloud cover.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 62%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
10.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.3 GW
Solar
52.3 GW
Total generation
+6.3 GW
Net export
-105.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 71.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
62
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 32.3 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, covering roughly 62% of the scene; wind onshore 9.3 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers with nacelles turning moderately in the breeze; wind offshore 0.9 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon over a distant body of water; biomass 4.0 GW occupies the left-centre middle distance as a cluster of wood-chip-fed power stations with modest chimneys and thin white steam; brown coal 2.4 GW sits in the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting slow grey-white steam plumes; natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley on the far left; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small stack barely visible behind the lignite plant, its plume thin and faint. The sky is entirely overcast with a bright, flat, uniform white-grey cloud layer typical of a mild April midday — full diffuse daylight but no direct sun, no shadows, soft even illumination across the landscape. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees, some yellow wildflowers. Temperature around 16°C suggested by light jackets on two tiny figures walking a path between panel rows. Gentle wind bends grasses and turns turbine blades at moderate speed. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every technology: correct rotor blade profiles, aluminium PV frames with blue-black cell surfaces, concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.