Solar at 45.3 GW under clear spring skies drives 91% renewable share and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
8.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.3 GW
Solar
65.1 GW
Total generation
+12.2 GW
Net export
-12.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
19% / 659.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
62
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 45.3 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting under brilliant afternoon sun. Wind onshore 8.2 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles arrayed across gentle green hills in the centre-left middle ground, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as a pair of large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes beside a conveyor-fed lignite bunker. Biomass 4.0 GW sits just right of the brown coal as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with short stacks releasing faint wisps. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and slim heat-recovery steam generator beside the biomass facility. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller classical power station with a single square chimney and a coal yard visible behind the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river with a weir and low concrete powerhouse in the left foreground. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is hinted at by a few tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line where a strip of sea is visible. The sky is mostly clear — 19% cloud cover rendered as a few high, thin cirrus wisps — with the sun high in the west-southwest casting warm, full spring afternoon light at 15:00 Berlin time. The landscape is lush with fresh April-green grass, budding deciduous trees, and wildflowers reflecting 16°C spring warmth. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, conveying abundance — open pastel blue sky with relaxed depth corresponding to negative electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening toward hazy blue distances — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct rotor blade profiles, lattice sub-structures on turbine towers, panel racking geometry, cooling tower parabolic curvature. No text, no labels.