Massive solar output of 33.4 GW under clear skies drives 89% renewables and strong net exports at low prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 64%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.4 GW
Solar
51.8 GW
Total generation
+12.7 GW
Net export
19.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
2% / 292.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 33.4 GW dominates the entire composition as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the scene, their blue-black surfaces glinting sharply under brilliant morning sunshine. Wind onshore 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the middle distance, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 3.3 GW is suggested by a line of larger turbines on a hazy horizon where flat terrain meets distant sky. Biomass 4.3 GW occupies a mid-ground position as a wood-chip-fired power station with a modest smokestack and steam wisp beside stacked timber. Brown coal 3.1 GW sits in the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, lazy steam plumes rising into clear air. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack, tucked behind the cooling towers, barely running. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water cascading into a green valley stream at the right edge. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single darkened stack, nearly dormant, beside the brown coal plant. The sky is almost entirely clear with only the faintest wisps of cirrus, a deep spring blue at 09:00 full morning daylight, sun fairly low in the east casting long golden-warm shadows across the panels. Temperature is cool at 8.6°C: spring vegetation is fresh bright green but restrained, some trees not fully leafed out, wildflowers dotting meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm and open — light, airy, no oppression — reflecting the very low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric perspective fading to soft blue-grey distances, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curvature, the scene a grand luminous industrial pastoral masterwork. No text, no labels.