Solar at 37.8 GW and wind at 14.7 GW drive 9.9 GW net exports and a slightly negative clearing price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 60%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
14.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.8 GW
Solar
63.4 GW
Total generation
+9.9 GW
Net export
-0.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.2°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 228.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 37.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly 60% of the composition from centre to right, their aluminium frames and blue-black cells reflecting diffuse white daylight. Wind onshore 9.8 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered across gentle green hills in the mid-ground right, their rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 4.9 GW is visible in the far background as a cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a compact stack and pale steam plume in the left mid-ground, surrounded by timber yards. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin grey steam plumes rising against the overcast sky. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a small CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal vapour trail, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir in a valley fold at lower left. Hard coal 0.6 GW appears as a single modest stack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The sky is fully overcast with a bright white-grey uniform cloud deck—daytime, 10:00 in April—illumination is even and shadowless yet surprisingly luminous, consistent with high diffuse irradiance. The landscape is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on birch and beech trees, cool-toned grass, patches of bare brown earth, temperature around 8°C suggesting jackets on any small figures. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price—no oppressive mood, just vast quiet productivity. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blues in the distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.