Massive solar output of 45.6 GW under clear skies drives 80% renewables and 6.8 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 64%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 7%
80%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.6 GW
Solar
71.1 GW
Total generation
+6.8 GW
Net export
20.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.7°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 345.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
135
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 45.6 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse 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 a cloudless brilliant spring sky at mid-morning with the sun at roughly 40° elevation casting sharp shadows. Brown coal 5.1 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes that drift lazily in near-still air. Natural gas 5.5 GW sits just right of the coal complex as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 3.7 GW is rendered as a smaller coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and single squat cooling tower behind the gas units. Wind onshore 4.6 GW appears as a modest row of modern three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a tiny cluster of turbines on the far-right horizon near a faint coastline. Biomass 4.4 GW is a medium-sized plant with a wood-chip silo and low smokestack amid trees left of centre. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam and penstock structure nestled in a forested valley in the far background. The landscape is early spring: bare deciduous trees just beginning to leaf out, fresh green grass, temperature around 8°C conveyed by cool-toned shadows and a crispness to the light. The sky is entirely clear, pale blue, luminous, conveying low electricity prices with an open, serene atmosphere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with haze near the horizon — yet every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, PV panel junction boxes, cooling tower parabolic profiles with condensation drift, CCGT stack geometry. The scene feels like a masterwork painting of the modern industrial-pastoral landscape. No text, no labels.