Solar delivers 48 GW under overcast skies with near-zero wind, pushing prices to 4 EUR/MWh on net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 78%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
0.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.2 GW
Solar
61.8 GW
Total generation
+3.8 GW
Net export
4.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 320.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
84
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.2 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition from the center to the right horizon. Brown coal 3.7 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky. Biomass 4.2 GW sits left-of-center as a cluster of mid-sized industrial boiler buildings with wood-chip storage silos and thin exhaust stacks. Natural gas 2.4 GW occupies a narrow strip as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low heat-recovery building. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single squat smokestack and coal conveyors. Hydro 1.3 GW is visible as a small concrete dam and reservoir in a shallow valley in the far background. Wind onshore 0.6 GW is represented by only two or three distant three-blade turbines on a ridge, rotors barely turning, almost motionless. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover but luminous and bright — a high, diffuse white-grey blanket of cloud at midday in late April, with strong ambient daylight filtering through. The air is calm and still, spring vegetation in fresh bright green on gentle hills, temperature mild at 12°C with no wind motion in grasses or trees. The atmosphere is serene and open, reflecting the extremely low electricity price — an expansive, tranquil, unhurried quality to the light. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, but with meticulous modern engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower concrete texture, and industrial pipe fitting. No text, no labels.