Solar at 45.6 GW under overcast skies drives 90.8% renewable share and negative prices amid 8.7 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
11.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.6 GW
Solar
68.3 GW
Total generation
+8.8 GW
Net export
-6.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 26.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 45.6 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire centre and right two-thirds of the composition, their glass surfaces reflecting a pale, flat white sky. Wind onshore 8.6 GW appears as clusters of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers rising behind the solar fields on gentle green hills, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is visible in the far distance as a line of turbines on a hazy horizon above a sliver of grey North Sea. Biomass 4.1 GW occupies the far left as a modest wood-chip power station with a short stack emitting thin pale smoke beside timber piles. Brown coal 2.8 GW sits in the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting sideways. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass facility. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular stack, partially obscured behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river weir and low concrete run-of-river powerhouse in the left foreground. The sky is completely overcast — a uniform blanket of grey-white stratus clouds at 100% coverage — yet the scene is in full midday daylight at noon, bright and evenly lit with no shadows and no visible sun disc; diffuse April light illuminates everything flatly. The air feels cool at 7.5°C; early spring vegetation shows fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees and damp green grass. The atmosphere is calm, open, and quietly luminous, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive mood, just serene oversupply. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous technical accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.