Solar at 25.1 GW and wind at 21.6 GW dominate a spring evening export hour at 87% renewables.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 42%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 6%
87%
Renewable share
21.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.1 GW
Solar
60.1 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
33.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.8°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
18% / 450.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
90
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 25.1 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green spring hillsides, angled toward a low western sun; wind onshore 19.1 GW fills the mid-ground and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers spread across rolling farmland, blades visibly turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint coastal strip; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as two modest industrial facilities with wood-chip conveyors and low exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour, placed left of centre; brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle steam plumes rising beside a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; natural gas 2.7 GW sits adjacent as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and smaller heat-recovery unit; hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single stack and coal yard, tucked beside the brown coal plant; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley to the far right. The lighting is late dusk at 17:00 in late April in central Germany — the sun is low on the western horizon casting long orange-gold rays across the landscape, the sky above transitioning from warm amber near the horizon to deepening blue overhead, with only 18% wispy cloud cover catching sunset colour. Spring vegetation is vivid: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees, canola fields beginning to bloom yellow. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a moderate electricity price — no oppressive haze, just gentle clarity. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective lending depth to the panorama, dramatic yet serene golden-hour light unifying industrial and natural elements into a single grand composition. Every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, three-blade rotors with correct pitch, PV panel grid lines, cooling tower parabolic geometry with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.