Strong onshore wind and solid solar drive 88% renewables, creating 10.3 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 50%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 22%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 4%
88%
Renewable share
47.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.1 GW
Solar
80.7 GW
Total generation
+10.3 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.3°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
29.0% / 74.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 40.4 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green-brown early-spring hills from the centre to the far right and deep into the background, their rotors visibly spinning in strong wind. Wind offshore 7.0 GW appears as a distant line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey-blue sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills at far right. Solar 18.1 GW fills the lower-centre foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled south, catching direct light through broken clouds. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a cylindrical wood-chip silo and a modest smokestack with thin white exhaust, positioned at the left-centre. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with gentle steam plumes, connected to a low conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Natural gas 2.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, just right of the cooling towers. Hard coal 2.4 GW is a smaller power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single square chimney emitting faint grey smoke, nestled beside the brown coal complex. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a stream cutting through the foreground. Daytime scene at 11:00 in late March: the sun is moderately high in the south, shining through gaps in 29% broken cumulus clouds casting dappled shadows across the landscape; sky is mostly blue with white cloud patches. Temperature 8.3°C: vegetation is early spring—bare branches with first green buds, pale dormant grass beginning to green, patches of damp earth. The wind at 22.5 km/h bends young grass and drives cloud shadows rapidly across the terrain. The atmosphere is calm, open, and luminous—reflecting the near-zero electricity price. 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 with soft blue haze in the distance, dramatic compositional depth from the foreground solar fields through the midground thermal plants and biomass to the far wind turbine horizon. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.