Solar at 35.5 GW drives 91% renewables and a deeply negative price of −236 EUR/MWh with negligible wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 78%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
0.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.5 GW
Solar
45.3 GW
Total generation
+4.4 GW
Net export
-235.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.5°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92% / 602.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
61
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 35.5 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under diffused but intense afternoon light filtering through a high, thin overcast sky at 15:00. Biomass 4.1 GW appears in the mid-ground as a cluster of wood-chip-fed CHP plants with modest exhaust stacks and orderly fuel piles. Brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting lazy steam plumes beside a lignite conveyor. Natural gas 1.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway in a shallow valley. Wind onshore 0.6 GW is a single three-blade turbine on a distant ridge, its rotor barely turning in the near-calm 4.8 km/h breeze. The sky is bright but hazy white-grey with 92% cloud cover, yet pierced by strong direct radiation creating sharp shadows on the panel arrays — a paradox of veiled brilliance. Spring vegetation at 14.5 °C: fresh pale-green beech leaves, rapeseed fields beginning to yellow. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the deeply negative price — no oppressive weight, instead an almost surreal tranquility of excess. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding to blue-grey hills — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curve, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.