Solar at 37.5 GW drives 85.7% renewable share, yielding 6.0 GW net export and suppressing prices to 13.3 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 63%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 7%
86%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.5 GW
Solar
59.3 GW
Total generation
+6.0 GW
Net export
13.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
3% / 510.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
100
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under brilliant afternoon sun. Wind onshore 5.0 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills at left-centre, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 2.8 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on a hazy horizon beyond green fields. Brown coal 4.3 GW stands at the far left as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the clear sky. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall stack and woodchip storage silos near the coal plant. Natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square cooling tower beside the gas plant. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible along a river cutting through the foreground meadow. The sky is virtually cloudless — only 3% cloud cover — with deep luminous blue and strong direct sunlight casting sharp shadows; the hour is 16:00 in April so the sun is in the western sky at moderate altitude, warm golden-white light. Temperature 16.6 °C: fresh spring green on deciduous trees just leafing out, bright wildflowers in meadow grass. Light breeze barely stirs the grass. The low electricity price is evoked by a vast, calm, open sky with serene atmospheric depth. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and cooling tower surface. No text, no labels.