Solar (30.6 GW) and wind (22.0 GW) drive 92% renewable share, creating 12.3 GW net export at negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
22.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.6 GW
Solar
63.1 GW
Total generation
+12.3 GW
Net export
-15.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
78.0% / 494.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Furnace Hour
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Solar 30.6 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, angled toward a high afternoon sun breaking through dramatic broken cumulus clouds; wind onshore 17.0 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles marching across rolling green spring hills in the centre-left, their rotors turning briskly; wind offshore 5.0 GW is visible in the distant background as a cluster of turbines standing in a grey-blue sea on the far horizon; brown coal 2.4 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of white steam, beside a modest lignite plant with conveyor belts; natural gas 2.2 GW sits just inside the left quarter as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and small heat recovery unit; biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded wood-chip storage dome and a short chimney amid trees in the left-centre middle ground; hydro 1.3 GW is represented by a small concrete dam with cascading water in a valley in the deep middle distance; hard coal 0.6 GW is a single small stack barely visible behind the lignite towers. The sky is mostly overcast with 78% broken cloud cover but strong golden-white direct sunlight streams through large gaps, casting warm highlights on the PV panels and turbine blades — full late-afternoon daylight at 16:00 in April. The atmosphere feels open, calm, and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers dotting meadows. Temperature is a mild 17°C. Wind visibly animates flags, grass, and turbine blades. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich saturated colour palette, visible textured brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth with layered distances, dramatic chiaroscuro from the cloud-broken sunlight. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, PV panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.