Solar at 52.6 GW under clear skies drives 90% renewable share and net exports at negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 74%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
5.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
52.6 GW
Solar
70.7 GW
Total generation
+5.7 GW
Net export
-3.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 488.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 52.6 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon PV arrays stretching across the entire centre and right foreground — thousands of aluminium-framed blue-black panels on rolling April fields with fresh pale-green grass and early spring buds on scattered trees. Brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the sky. Wind onshore 4.7 GW is represented by a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on a low ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.7 GW appears as a faint line of small turbines on the distant horizon. Natural gas 2.4 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer, placed between the cooling towers and the solar fields. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller industrial block with a single square stack next to the gas plant. Biomass 4.1 GW shows as a cluster of modest biomass plants with rounded silos and low chimneys amid the fields. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir nestled in a valley at the far right edge. The time is noon in early April — full brilliant daylight with a completely clear blue sky, the sun high and intense, casting sharp shadows. The air is calm and luminous. Temperature around 11°C gives the landscape a cool spring freshness. The negative electricity price is reflected in a wide-open, tranquil, almost weightless atmosphere with soft light flooding every surface. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and golden-hour luminosity adapted to midday brilliance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature and concrete texture. No text, no labels.