Wind dominance at 39.8 GW drives 18.1 GW net export and negative prices under heavy overcast.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 54%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 21%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
39.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.9 GW
Solar
62.5 GW
Total generation
+18.1 GW
Net export
-6.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.7°C / 30 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 33.7 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green April hills from centre to far right, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 6.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of taller turbines on a grey North Sea horizon at far right. Solar 12.9 GW occupies the lower-centre foreground as extensive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on flat farmland, their surfaces dull under heavy overcast with no direct sunlight. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip power station with a rectangular boiler building and a single smokestack emitting pale steam, placed left of centre. Brown coal 2.2 GW appears at the left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into grey clouds, with a conveyor belt of lignite visible at their base. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal emissions, tucked behind the cooling towers. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a small, dark-bricked power station with one narrow chimney, barely visible at the far left edge. Hydro 0.9 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir in the left-middle distance among forested slopes. The sky is 96% overcast, heavy layered grey stratus clouds, with only a narrow band of deep orange-red dusk glow along the lowest western horizon — the time is 17:00 in early April, so light is rapidly fading, the upper sky transitioning to slate blue-grey. Temperature is mild at 13.7°C; fresh spring grass and budding deciduous trees cover the hills. Wind is palpable: grass bends, clouds streak, turbine blades blur with speed. The negative price evokes an open, expansive, calm atmosphere despite the heavy clouds — no oppressive mood. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, dramatic depth from foreground solar fields through mid-ground turbines to distant sea horizon — yet every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor profiles, lattice sub-structures, cooling tower hyperboloid geometry, panel cell grids. No text, no labels.