Solar at 42.4 GW drives 13.3 GW net exports and a slightly negative price at midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 75%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
4.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.4 GW
Solar
56.9 GW
Total generation
+13.2 GW
Net export
-1.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 393.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 42.4 GW dominates the entire scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears in the distant right background as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines rising from a hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea. Wind onshore 1.7 GW is represented by a small group of lattice-towered three-blade turbines on a low ridge at centre-right. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a squat smokestack and stored timber piles at centre-left. Brown coal 2.4 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin, lazy steam plumes, visually reduced in scale to match its minor share. Natural gas 1.6 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the mid-left distance. Hard coal 0.4 GW is barely visible as a single small stack behind the brown coal towers. Lighting: full midday daylight at noon in May, bright but with a high thin overcast — the sky is a luminous white-grey veil through which the sun disc is faintly visible, casting soft diffuse shadows across the solar fields. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — no oppressive weight — reflecting the negative electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh green meadows, young leaves on scattered deciduous trees, wildflowers at field edges, temperature around 18°C suggesting pleasant warmth. Air is nearly still — no motion in grasses or turbine blades barely turning. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete ribs. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.