Solar at 43.7 GW drives 87% renewable share, pushing prices to zero amid modest net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 64%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
87%
Renewable share
10.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.7 GW
Solar
68.6 GW
Total generation
+2.9 GW
Net export
-0.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.4°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
76.0% / 317.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
89
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 43.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse midday light; wind onshore 9.3 GW and wind offshore 1.3 GW appear as clusters of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers arrayed along ridgelines in the centre-right middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting lazy white steam plumes rising into the overcast; biomass 4.2 GW sits in the left-centre as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a low exhaust stack and neat woodchip storage piles; natural gas 2.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer, positioned just right of the lignite complex; hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a square chimney and dark conveyor belt, nestled beside the brown coal towers; hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir visible in a river winding through the foreground valley. The sky is 76% covered by layered alto-cumulus and strato-cumulus clouds, with patches of hazy blue and moderate direct sunlight breaking through in broad shafts — full midday brightness at 12:00 Berlin time but softened and diffuse. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive heaviness, just quiet mild air. Spring vegetation: bare-branching deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out in pale green, winter wheat fields showing fresh growth, 10°C coolness suggested by a slight haze over damp meadows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich but muted colour palette of silver-greens, slate-blues, and warm ochres; visible confident brushwork; deep atmospheric perspective with aerial haze softening distant industrial structures; meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.