Solar at 43.7 GW drives 88.5% renewable share and a slight net export with negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 64%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
11.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.7 GW
Solar
68.6 GW
Total generation
+2.8 GW
Net export
-1.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.7°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
36.0% / 328.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
81
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 43.7 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under bright early-afternoon spring sunshine. Wind onshore 10.2 GW appears as dozens of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed along a ridge in the middle distance, blades turning gently in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line. Brown coal 4.2 GW occupies the far left as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with modest white steam plumes rising into the sky. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack with faint exhaust, nestled among bare-budding deciduous trees. Natural gas 2.5 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a streamlined exhaust stack and visible heat-recovery unit, placed between the coal plant and the solar fields. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a square chimney and conveyor belt, partially behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.5 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse visible along a stream in the foreground valley. The sky is mostly blue with scattered white cumulus clouds, 36% cloud cover, sunlight strong and casting defined shadows. Early spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, trees just beginning to leaf out, patches of yellow wildflowers. Temperature around 11°C gives crisp, clear air. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, reflecting the negative electricity price — an open, serene, almost weightless quality to the sky. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into a hazy blue distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's concrete ribbing is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.