Clear-sky solar at 36.5 GW leads Germany's 87% renewable morning, with light winds and moderate thermal backup.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 61%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 6%
87%
Renewable share
10.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.5 GW
Solar
60.3 GW
Total generation
+1.1 GW
Net export
45.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.1°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 225.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
90
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, angled toward a brilliant mid-morning sun in a perfectly clear spring sky. Wind onshore 9.6 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on gentle hills in the centre-left middle ground, their blades nearly still in the calm air. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting gentle steam plumes against the blue sky. Natural gas 2.5 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low industrial buildings. Hard coal 2.0 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and a chimney releasing a thin wisp of grey exhaust, positioned between the gas plant and the wind turbines. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized biogas facility with cylindrical green digesters and a low smokestack, nestled among farmland in the centre. Hydro 1.4 GW shows as a small concrete run-of-river dam and powerhouse visible along a gentle river in the left foreground. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is a handful of distant turbines barely visible on the far horizon. The lighting is full bright April morning daylight at 09:00, sun moderately elevated in the east, casting long but defined shadows across fresh green spring vegetation — early budding trees, cool-season grass at 7°C. The sky is completely cloudless, deep blue overhead fading to paler blue at the horizon. The atmosphere feels calm and mild, not oppressive. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct turbine blade geometry, proper PV panel grid patterns, accurate cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation plumes. No text, no labels.