Onshore wind at 37 GW dominates a 93.5% renewable grid, pushing prices negative with 26 GW of net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 27%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
42.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
72.9 GW
Total generation
+26.1 GW
Net export
-10.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 30 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 15.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 37.1 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors visibly blurred with motion in strong wind. Wind offshore 5.5 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on the horizon line above a grey North Sea sliver at far right. Solar 19.9 GW occupies the lower-centre foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on metal racking, reflecting only the pale diffuse light of a fully overcast sky — no direct sunlight, no sun disc visible. Biomass 4.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a tall stack emitting thin white exhaust and a wood-chip storage dome. Brown coal 2.2 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with modest steam plumes rising into heavy clouds. Natural gas 2.0 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack and low vapour trail. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with foaming water visible at the lower left edge. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers, with a wisp of exhaust. The sky is entirely blanketed in low, thick stratiform clouds, uniformly grey-white with no breaks, lit by full mid-morning April daylight diffused evenly — no shadows on the ground. The atmosphere feels calm and open despite the overcast, reflecting the negative electricity price. Early spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass and budding deciduous trees with light foliage on gentle central-German terrain. Wind ripples through the grass and bends young branches. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich tonal depth, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with muted greens and greys receding into hazy distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.