Solar at 42.6 GW drives 88% renewables, pushing prices negative and enabling 7.4 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
10.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.6 GW
Solar
66.4 GW
Total generation
+7.4 GW
Net export
-1.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.4°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
53% / 265.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
82
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 42.6 GW dominates the scene: vast expanses of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across gently rolling central German farmland, occupying nearly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a partly cloudy midday sky with roughly half cloud cover and strong patches of direct sunlight. Wind onshore 10.0 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along ridgelines in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon. Brown coal 4.1 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes and an adjacent lignite conveyor system. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with short stacks and wood-chip storage domes near a forest edge. Natural gas 2.4 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a single square cooling tower, barely steaming. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir along a modest river in the foreground. The sky is bright spring daylight at 13:00, sun high in the south, cumulus clouds covering about half the sky, light filtering between cloud gaps to create patchwork shadows on green April meadows with early wildflowers and budding deciduous trees. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive haze, just gentle spring air. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every technology element. No text, no labels.