Solar provides 62% of generation under full overcast, pushing prices to zero with 5.4 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 62%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
13.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.7 GW
Solar
66.9 GW
Total generation
+5.4 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.3°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 64.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.7 GW dominates the centre and right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently undulating central German farmland with early spring vegetation — pale green grass, budding hedgerows, bare-branched oaks beginning to leaf; wind onshore 10.3 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across ridgelines in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested by a cluster of turbines visible on a distant grey horizon line; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a compact stack and moderate steam plume at left-centre; brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising against the overcast sky; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller traditional coal plant with a single square chimney, barely smoking; hydro 1.5 GW is a small run-of-river weir with foaming water visible at the near-left edge. The sky is entirely overcast — a flat, luminous, pearl-grey ceiling of stratus cloud at 11:00 AM, fully daylit but with no direct sun, diffuse light casting soft, nearly shadowless illumination across all surfaces. Temperature is cool at 6°C: figures in the scene wear light jackets. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, just quiet grey light over an immense landscape of energy infrastructure. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour in muted greens, greys, and silvers, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with soft aerial perspective fading the distant turbines into haze. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: nacelle housings, three-blade rotors, panel bus-bars, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT heat-recovery housings. No text, no labels.