Solar at 41.6 GW drives 91% renewables, yielding 10.2 GW net exports and a near-zero clearing price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 77%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.6 GW
Solar
53.9 GW
Total generation
+10.2 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
75% / 308.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.6 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than three-quarters of the landscape, their aluminium frames glinting under diffuse afternoon daylight filtering through a high, partly overcast sky. Brown coal 2.7 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin, lazy steam plumes. Biomass 3.9 GW occupies a modest cluster of timber-sided biogas plants with rounded digesters and short stacks just left of centre. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible exhaust. Wind onshore 1.6 GW shows a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir at the lower right with water cascading gently. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small conventional boiler stack at the far edge, thin wisp of smoke. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is faintly suggested by tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is 75% covered with layered alto-cumulus and strato-cumulus clouds, with patches of blue and shafts of direct sunlight breaking through — full 14:00 May daylight, warm and bright but not harsh. The landscape is lush central-German spring: fresh green grass, beech and oak in full young leaf, dandelions dotting meadow edges, temperature a mild 16°C. The air is calm, no motion in trees or grass. The atmosphere is tranquil and open, reflecting the zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, no tension. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated greens and warm golds, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into blue-grey distance, the grandeur of Caspar David Friedrich merged with meticulous industrial-technical accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.