Solar at 36.5 GW dominates under clear spring skies, suppressing prices to 3.8 EUR/MWh with light wind support.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 66%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.5 GW
Solar
55.6 GW
Total generation
+3.0 GW
Net export
3.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
14% / 496.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
97
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense foreground and middle-ground expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling Thuringian farmland, their aluminium frames glinting in bright afternoon sunlight; brown coal 4.0 GW appears at the left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising against the sky; wind onshore 4.3 GW is represented by a scattered cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors turning very slowly in light breeze; biomass 4.1 GW sits as a compact wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack and stored timber piles near the left-centre; natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a single modern CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer in the centre-right middle distance; wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line far right; hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with spillway visible along a creek in the lower right foreground; hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a single small coal plant with conveyor belt barely visible behind the solar field at the far left edge. The hour is 16:00 in early April: full bright daylight, sun moderately high in the west-southwest, sky 86 percent clear with only thin wisps of cirrus, spring-green grass and budding deciduous trees, mild 15 °C atmosphere with soft haze on the horizon. The low electricity price is conveyed by an open, calm, expansive sky with no oppressive weight. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to blue-grey at the horizon—yet every technological element is engineered with meticulous accuracy: three-blade rotor geometries, nacelle housings, PV cell grid patterns, hyperbolic cooling tower curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.