Solar at 31.7 GW under overcast skies drives 90% renewable share, yielding 3.5 GW net export and an 11.2 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 68%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.7 GW
Solar
46.7 GW
Total generation
+3.4 GW
Net export
11.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 80.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 31.7 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland and rooftops, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition. Wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant row of tall three-blade turbines barely turning on a glassy North Sea horizon at upper right. Wind onshore 1.5 GW shows a small cluster of lattice-towered turbines with rotors nearly still on a low ridge at mid-right. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-ground combined heat-and-power plant with stacked woodchip silos and a modest steam exhaust. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes beside a lignite conveyor belt. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single slender exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit near the left-centre. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a weir and small run-of-river powerhouse along a tree-lined stream in the lower foreground. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single older smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal plant. The sky is fully overcast with a uniform layer of pale grey-white stratus clouds, yet the scene is well-lit with soft, shadowless May morning daylight at 09:00, diffuse and luminous. The air is still—no motion in grass, flags, or branches—reflecting near-zero wind. Temperature is cool spring: fresh green deciduous leaves on birch and beech trees, wildflowers in meadow strips between solar arrays, dew lingering on metal panel frames. The atmosphere is calm and spacious, reflecting the low electricity price—no oppressive haze, just gentle overcast serenity. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich, layered colour with visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth receding into a misty horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel rack, cooling tower, and smokestack. No text, no labels.