Solar at 51.5 GW under clear skies drives 91.8% renewables and a negative day-ahead price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
9.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.5 GW
Solar
72.2 GW
Total generation
+15.1 GW
Net export
-3.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 518.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 51.5 GW dominates the entire panorama as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly 70% of the canvas from foreground to mid-ground, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under intense midday sun. Wind onshore 8.8 GW fills the upper-right background as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers, blades turning gently in moderate wind. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a compact wood-chip-fed power station with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard at the left edge. Brown coal 2.6 GW stands as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes in the far left background beside a lignite conveyor. Natural gas 1.8 GW is rendered as a single compact CCGT plant with a tall exhaust stack and barely visible heat shimmer, tucked between the cooling towers and the biomass plant. Hard coal 1.5 GW shows as a smaller coal-fired station with a single square stack and a coal yard, partially idle, adjacent to the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small river weir and low-head run-of-river turbine house near the foreground edge. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is omitted from the scene due to negligible share. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous pale spring blue with 0% cloud cover. Direct solar radiation at 518 W/m² casts sharp, well-defined shadows. Spring vegetation at 12.3 °C: fresh bright-green grass, young rapeseed beginning to yellow, deciduous trees in new leaf. The atmosphere is calm, open, and expansive — reflecting the negative electricity price — with no oppressive tones, just a serene and almost overwhelming brightness flooding every surface. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze at the horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower surface. No text, no labels, no people.