Solar at 43.2 GW overwhelmingly leads generation on a mild, overcast spring morning with 4.1 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.2 GW
Solar
64.0 GW
Total generation
+4.1 GW
Net export
21.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 219.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 43.2 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across two-thirds of a gently rolling central German landscape, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting diffuse midmorning light. Wind onshore 6.4 GW appears as clusters of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on distant ridgelines, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a thin line of turbines on a far hazy horizon. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a group of modest industrial biogas facilities with low stacks and green-painted digesters nestled among farm buildings in the middle distance. Brown coal 3.4 GW occupies a portion of the left background as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin white steam plumes. Natural gas 2.1 GW sits nearby as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.4 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney and modest steam. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a concrete powerhouse visible along a river winding through the foreground. The sky is fully overcast with a luminous white-grey cloud layer at 10:00 AM—bright diffuse daylight, no direct sun disk visible but the landscape is well-lit and shadowless. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green deciduous trees budding, rapeseed fields beginning to yellow, grass lush. Temperature 11.6 °C: figures in light jackets. Low price atmosphere: the scene feels calm, open, spacious. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective lending depth to the receding plains—yet every engineering detail is meticulous: turbine nacelles, lattice substation towers, PV module grid lines, cooling tower ribbing, CCGT finned exhaust. No text, no labels.