Cloudless spring morning drives 46.5 GW of solar, pushing renewables to 87% and enabling 4.8 GW net exports at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 5%
87%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.5 GW
Solar
65.7 GW
Total generation
+4.8 GW
Net export
20.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 348.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
92
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a brilliant, cloudless midmorning sun at 10:00 in full spring daylight. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with modest white steam plumes rising against the blue sky. Hard coal 2.4 GW stands just beside them as a single smaller stack with dark conveyor infrastructure. Natural gas 3.0 GW occupies a narrow band as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest biomass CHP facilities with rounded silos and thin chimneys emitting pale vapor, placed in the left-centre. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete weir and penstock structure near a stream in the lower foreground. Wind onshore 4.1 GW shows as a short row of three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the mid-background, their rotors barely turning in the nearly still air; wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on the far horizon. The landscape is early spring in central Germany: bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, fresh green grass emerging, temperature around 7.5 °C conveyed by cool-toned shadows and figures in light jackets. The sky is entirely clear, a luminous pale blue with strong direct sunlight casting crisp shadows. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting the low electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, golden light, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.