Solar at 44.3 GW and wind at 22.7 GW drive 26.5 GW net exports and a –79.5 EUR/MWh price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 58%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
22.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.3 GW
Solar
77.0 GW
Total generation
+26.5 GW
Net export
-79.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.0°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
51.0% / 460.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
42
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 44.3 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering over half the canvas from the centre to the right, their aluminium frames glinting under a midday sun partially veiled by broken cumulus clouds at roughly 51% cover. Wind onshore 18.6 GW appears as dense ranks of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles arrayed across gentle hills in the mid-ground and background, blades turning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 4.1 GW is visible as a distant line of larger offshore turbines on a hazy horizon suggesting the North Sea. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest wood-clad biomass power plants with squat chimneys emitting thin white exhaust, nestled among trees at the left edge. Brown coal 2.1 GW appears as two hyperbolic cooling towers with faint steam plumes in the far left background, small but precisely detailed. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour, tucked behind the biomass cluster. Hydro 1.0 GW shows as a small concrete weir with turbine house along a stream in the lower-left foreground. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single small conventional stack barely visible beside the brown coal towers. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, early leaf buds on deciduous trees, scattered wildflowers suggesting April at 11°C. The sky is luminous midday—high sun at zenith with direct radiation casting defined shadows, patches of blue between soft white clouds, overall a calm, open, expansive atmosphere conveying the deeply negative electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening the distant cooling towers and offshore turbines, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels, no people.