Solar at 42.6 GW under cloudless skies drives 75.5% renewable share and 7.1 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 58%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
76%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.6 GW
Solar
73.9 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
59.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 491.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
176
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 42.6 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right half and centre-right with vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling early-spring farmland under a brilliant, cloudless midday sky. Brown coal 8.4 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, beside conveyor belts feeding lignite from open pits. Hard coal 5.1 GW appears just left of centre as a smaller coal-fired power station with twin rectangular stacks and coal bunkers. Natural gas 4.6 GW is rendered as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and gleaming steel heat-recovery steam generators, positioned centre-left. Wind offshore 4.4 GW is visible as a line of large three-blade turbines on monopile foundations along a distant hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea, their blades turning slowly. Wind onshore 3.8 GW appears as a modest row of lattice-towered three-blade turbines on a ridge behind the solar fields, blades barely rotating in the light 7.6 km/h breeze. Biomass 4.0 GW is depicted as a medium-sized wood-chip plant with a rounded silo and modest steam plume near the coal station. Hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse nestled along a river in the lower foreground. The sky is perfectly clear, deep Prussian blue at the zenith fading to warm pale blue at the horizon, with intense spring sunlight casting crisp shadows. Vegetation is early spring — bare deciduous trees with just the first pale green buds, winter wheat greening in fields, temperature around 8 °C suggested by cool-toned shadows and staff in light jackets. The atmosphere is calm and moderately warm in tone, reflecting a 59.7 EUR/MWh price — neither oppressive nor exuberant. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding toward the coastal horizon, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.