Solar at 38.7 GW drives 87% renewable share and negative prices on a mild spring midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 72%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 6%
87%
Renewable share
2.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.7 GW
Solar
54.0 GW
Total generation
+4.4 GW
Net export
-4.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
98% / 508.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
91
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.7 GW dominates the scene as an immense foreground and middle-ground expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling spring farmland, their aluminium frames glinting under diffuse but luminous midday light; brown coal 3.2 GW appears at the left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising from a lignite plant; natural gas 2.2 GW sits just left of centre as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack beside a coal conveyor; biomass 4.0 GW is represented right of centre by a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with cylindrical silos and modest chimneys; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir along a stream in the mid-right valley; wind onshore 2.1 GW shows as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 0.7 GW is a faint line of turbines on the far horizon. The sky is a high overcast of thin milky cloud at 98% cover, yet bright enough that a diffuse disc of the sun is visible, casting soft shadowless midday light across the landscape. Fresh green April vegetation — young rapeseed, sprouting wheat, budding lime trees — covers the rolling hills at 17.8 °C. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive heaviness, just serene luminous stillness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective into hazy blue distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.