Solar at 51.4 GW drives 89% renewables, pushing prices negative and enabling 9.6 GW net exports under clear spring skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 73%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.4 GW
Solar
70.0 GW
Total generation
+9.6 GW
Net export
-2.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 487.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 51.4 GW dominates the entire scene as a vast plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under brilliant midday sun; brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy grey-white steam plumes rising into the still air; natural gas 2.6 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a thin heat shimmer; hard coal 1.8 GW is rendered as a smaller conventional power station with a squat smokestack and coal conveyors; wind onshore 4.8 GW is shown as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines on gentle hills at the right edge, their rotors nearly still in the calm air; wind offshore 0.5 GW appears as a tiny group of turbines on the far-right horizon; biomass 4.1 GW is depicted as a wood-chip fired plant with a distinctive green-roofed storage barn and low exhaust; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a valley fold. The setting is a central German rolling landscape in mid-spring: fresh pale-green leaves on birch and beech trees, young rapeseed fields not yet blooming, short grass. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep luminous blue, with the April sun high and slightly south, casting short crisp shadows. The air feels calm and tranquil — no wind motion in grasses or branches — reflecting the negative electricity price. Light is full bright midday daylight at 11:00 Berlin time. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading distant hills to soft blue, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature and concrete texture. No text, no labels.