Solar at 33.7 GW drives 90% renewable share and massive net exports, collapsing the day-ahead price to 1 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 62%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
54.2 GW
Total generation
+13.6 GW
Net export
1.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 116.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 33.7 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right two-thirds of the composition with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon across gentle green spring farmland. Wind onshore 7.3 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across rolling hills in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 2.7 GW is suggested by a cluster of turbines visible far away on a hazy horizon line. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the overcast, beside a conveyor system and lignite stockpile. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, placed just to the right of the cooling towers. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-fired plant with a cylindrical silo and short smokestack emitting faint white vapour, nestled among trees in the left-centre. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible in a valley in the lower-left foreground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small stack barely visible behind the brown coal complex. TIME OF DAY: 14:00 full daylight but entirely overcast — the sky is a uniform bright white-grey blanket of stratus cloud with no blue patches, casting soft diffuse shadowless light across the entire landscape. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh bright green grass, blooming rapeseed fields in yellow, deciduous trees in full young leaf. Temperature ~15°C suggests cool, pleasant air — no heat haze. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The composition feels like a monumental 19th-century German Romantic industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.