Peak solar at 43.3 GW under clear skies drives 89% renewable share and negative prices with 6.9 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
5.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.3 GW
Solar
60.7 GW
Total generation
+6.9 GW
Net export
-4.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 564.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
78
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 43.3 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying more than two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under brilliant afternoon sun. Brown coal 3.5 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising gently. Natural gas 2.4 GW sits just left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-fired CHP facilities with modest chimneys and stacked timber in the mid-left ground. Wind onshore 3.6 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at the right, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir along a stream in the foreground. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller stack with a thin wisp of exhaust near the brown coal towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep luminous blue with the sun at a mid-afternoon angle casting warm directional light and long soft shadows. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers dotting field margins. Temperature is mild — no haze, crisp visibility to the horizon. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into blue distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.