Solar at 38.7 GW drives 90.7% renewable share, collapsing prices as Germany net exports 14.6 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
8.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.7 GW
Solar
58.0 GW
Total generation
+14.6 GW
Net export
0.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88% / 376.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
65
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly two-thirds of the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under diffuse late-morning daylight filtering through a high overcast sky with occasional brighter breaks where direct sun penetrates. Wind onshore 5.6 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on rolling green hills in the mid-left background, their rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 3.0 GW is visible as a distant row of taller turbines on the hazy horizon line above a faint strip of grey sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip-fed power station with a modest smokestack and stored timber piles in the centre-left middle ground. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies a section at the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes beside a lignite pit mine with terraced brown earth. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a small modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a gentle valley at the right edge. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller smokestack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is mostly clouded at 88% cover but with luminous breaks letting shafts of warm light fall across the panels; the atmosphere feels calm, open, and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow edges, temperature around 13°C giving a cool, crisp feel. Lighting is full mid-morning daylight from the east-southeast, soft and diffuse. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich colour palette of greens, blues, silvers, and warm earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading distant turbines into haze, meticulous engineering detail on every technology element. No text, no labels.