Wind (27.6 GW) and solar (18.7 GW) push Germany to 16.3 GW net export at a negative price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 32%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
27.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.7 GW
Solar
58.7 GW
Total generation
+16.4 GW
Net export
-0.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
69% / 346.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
73
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 23.5 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green spring hills from mid-ground to far horizon, rotors visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.1 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a sliver of grey sea at the far left; solar 18.7 GW fills the right foreground and mid-ground as extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on open farmland, their glass surfaces catching the fading orange-red light; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack trailing pale vapour at centre-left; natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with two slim exhaust stacks and a modest steam plume near centre; brown coal 2.8 GW shows as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam columns rising behind them, placed at the far left background; hard coal 0.7 GW is a small conventional stack barely visible between the brown-coal towers; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a modest concrete dam with white spillway water visible in a valley notch at the far right. Time of day is 17:00 Berlin dusk in early April: the sun sits very low on the western horizon casting a deep orange-red glow along the lower sky, while the upper sky transitions from warm amber to cooling slate-blue; 69% cloud cover creates broken altocumulus layers tinted gold and violet underneath. Temperature 17.4°C: fresh green spring foliage on scattered birch and beech trees, bright rapeseed fields beginning to yellow. Negative electricity price atmosphere: the sky feels open and expansive, with a sense of overflowing calm abundance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with depth haze, luminous glazes in the sky, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete shell. No text, no labels.