Solar at 40.3 GW drives 76% of generation, collapsing prices to 9.9 EUR/MWh under near-cloudless skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 76%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.3 GW
Solar
52.9 GW
Total generation
+5.8 GW
Net export
9.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.1°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
12% / 403.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 40.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a brilliant late-morning sun high in a nearly cloudless pale-blue sky with only wisps of cirrus. Brown coal 3.0 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Biomass 4.1 GW occupies a cluster of mid-sized biogas digesters with green-domed tanks and short exhaust stacks just left of centre. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat-recovery unit behind the solar fields. Wind onshore 1.4 GW appears as a handful of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at far right, their rotors nearly motionless in the dead-calm air. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a small conventional power station with a single square chimney releasing a faint grey wisp, tucked behind the biomass cluster. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small weir and run-of-river plant along a gentle stream in the mid-ground. Wind offshore 0.2 GW is barely hinted at by one or two tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line. The landscape is springtime central Germany in early May: fresh bright-green deciduous foliage, yellow rapeseed fields in patches between solar arrays, mild 11°C light with long shadows pointing northwest. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, skies open and serene — reflecting the very low electricity price. 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 golden light, yet rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology — turbine nacelles, PV cell grids, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.