Solar at 43.2 GW drives 93% renewable share and −42 EUR/MWh prices as Germany exports heavily.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 69%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
9.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.2 GW
Solar
62.4 GW
Total generation
+13.7 GW
Net export
-42.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.2°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
60% / 377.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 43.2 GW dominates the entire centre and right two-thirds of the canvas as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green spring fields, angled south, catching direct midday sunlight; wind onshore 8.2 GW appears as a long row of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a ridgeline behind the panels, blades turning gently in light wind; wind offshore 1.2 GW is a small cluster of larger turbines visible on the distant hazy horizon beyond a coastal strip; biomass 4.2 GW is represented by a medium-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip silo and a single tall stack emitting thin white steam, positioned in the left-centre middle ground; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a modest concrete run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower left foreground; brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy grey-white steam plumes rising against the sky; hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller smokestack beside a dark coal bunker adjacent to the cooling towers; natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single polished exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, nestled between the coal plant and the biomass facility. The sky is late-morning April daylight at 11:00, bright but with a broken layer of cumulus clouds covering roughly 60% of the sky, allowing strong shafts of direct sunlight to illuminate the solar arrays while cloud shadows mottle the distant hills. Fresh spring vegetation — bright green grass, budding deciduous trees, scattered wildflowers — reflects a temperature around 9°C with a cool crispness in the air. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, open and spacious, reflecting deeply negative electricity prices — no oppressive weight, only serene abundance. Rendered as a 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to blue-grey in the distance, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.