Solar at 35.2 GW drives 90% renewable share and 13.5 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 61%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
10.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.2 GW
Solar
57.4 GW
Total generation
+13.5 GW
Net export
7.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
71% / 141.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 35.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the composition from foreground to middle distance, their aluminium frames catching diffuse midday light. Wind onshore 9.0 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on gentle ridgelines across the right quarter, rotors turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 1.8 GW is visible as a faint cluster of turbines on the distant horizon line. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a pair of medium-scale industrial plants with wood-chip silos and low stacks emitting thin white exhaust, nestled among trees at left-centre. Brown coal 3.1 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with modest steam plumes rising into overcast sky. Natural gas 2.0 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a small conventional plant with a single squat chimney, barely visible behind the gas units. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with spillway foam on a small river cutting through the foreground meadow. The sky is 71% overcast with layered alto-stratus clouds, but breaks of pale blue allow diffuse sunlight to illuminate the landscape evenly — full midday brightness at 13:00, soft shadows, no harsh contrast. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, beech and birch trees in young leaf, some rapeseed fields showing early yellow. Temperature is cool at 10°C — a few figures wear light jackets. The low electricity price is reflected in an open, calm, expansive atmosphere with no oppressive weight. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy distance — yet every technology is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, PV cell grids, cooling tower geometry, concrete dam structures. No text, no labels.