Solar at 48.3 GW dominates a midday grid at 85% renewables, with light winds and moderate thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 7%
85%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.3 GW
Solar
64.7 GW
Total generation
+2.4 GW
Net export
30.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
38% / 489.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
104
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.3 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting sharply in strong midday sunlight. Brown coal 4.3 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 4.1 GW is depicted as a mid-ground wood-chip-fired power station with a tall rectangular stack and stored timber piles. Natural gas 2.7 GW occupies a compact area as a modern CCGT plant with a clean single exhaust stack and a modest heat-shimmer plume. Hard coal 2.5 GW sits beside the lignite plant as a smaller conventional coal station with a conveyor belt and dark stockpile. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir on a small river threading through the valley. Wind onshore 0.8 GW is represented by a few three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is not visible but suggested by a faint haze on the far northern horizon. The sky is bright midday April daylight with scattered cumulus clouds covering about 38% of an otherwise vivid blue sky, direct sunlight casting sharp shadows across the panels. Spring vegetation is fresh and green at 17 °C—budding deciduous trees, rapeseed fields beginning to yellow. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the moderate 30.9 EUR/MWh price—no oppressive haze, just a clean spring day. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment—but with meticulous modern engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.