Solar at 46.8 GW drives 90% renewable share and negative prices as Germany exports 17.6 GW at midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 65%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
12.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.8 GW
Solar
72.1 GW
Total generation
+17.6 GW
Net export
-1.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 287.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.8 GW dominates the scene: vast expanses of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across rolling central German farmland, covering the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames and blue-black cells rendered in meticulous detail, reflecting a bright but fully overcast white-grey sky at high noon. Wind onshore 8.9 GW appears as a long row of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on distant green hills at centre-left, blades turning gently in light breeze. Wind offshore 4.0 GW is visible as a cluster of larger turbines on a hazy horizon line far behind. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising, beside a low industrial complex with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Natural gas 2.5 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting faint heat shimmer. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip-fed power station with a cylindrical silo and modest smokestack. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a forested valley at the left edge. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller stack beside the brown coal plant, barely smoking. The sky is a uniform blanket of high overcast cloud, luminous and bright with diffused April daylight, casting soft shadowless light across the landscape — calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green leaves on birch and beech trees, yellow rapeseed fields beginning to bloom, grass vivid green. Temperature around 13°C gives a cool crispness to the air. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into a pale misty horizon — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell busbar, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve is rendered with precise engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.