Solar at 26.4 GW drives 89% renewable share and near-zero prices despite full overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 60%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
7.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.4 GW
Solar
44.3 GW
Total generation
+5.1 GW
Net export
1.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.7°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 166.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green fields occupying roughly 60% of the canvas from right to centre-right; wind onshore 5.1 GW appears as a row of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers on gentle hills at centre-left, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.5 GW is visible as distant turbines on a hazy horizon line at far left; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad power station with a tall stack and wood-chip storage yard; brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting modest steam plumes beside a lignite conveyor belt; natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze next to the cooling towers; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a creek in the foreground; hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small smokestack barely active behind the gas plant. The sky is fully overcast with a uniform layer of bright white-grey clouds diffusing strong daylight at 4 PM in May, casting soft even illumination with no sharp shadows — the light is luminous but directionless. Temperature is a warm 20°C; vegetation is lush late-spring green with blooming wildflowers in field margins and full-canopied deciduous trees. The atmosphere is calm and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colours, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into hazy distance — yet every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, steel lattice details. No text, no labels, no people.