Solar at 30.5 GW under heavy overcast drives 11.4 GW net exports and depresses prices to 17.9 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 58%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
11.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
53.0 GW
Total generation
+11.3 GW
Net export
17.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
95% / 158.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
79
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire centre and right side of the composition, covering rolling central German farmland. Wind onshore 8.6 GW appears as clusters of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers rising behind the solar fields on gentle hills, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is glimpsed as a distant line of turbines on a hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea coast. Biomass 4.0 GW occupies the middle-left as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with cylindrical digesters and short exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour. Brown coal 3.1 GW sits at the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes drifting in the still air, adjacent to a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal emissions, nestled between the coal plant and biomass facility. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller stack and bunker partially obscured behind the brown coal plant. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the far background. The sky is almost entirely overcast at 95% cloud cover—a thick, luminous, pearl-grey blanket of stratus clouds with only narrow rifts allowing muted diffuse daylight through, consistent with 15:00 full afternoon daylight yet soft and shadowless. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price. Temperature is a cool 11.8°C spring day: fresh green foliage on scattered birch and linden trees, meadow grasses lush but not yet tall, wildflowers beginning to bloom. The mood is quiet abundance. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve. No text, no labels.