Solar at 56.9 GW drives 90% renewables, pushing 12.8 GW net exports and a negative clearing price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
90%
Renewable share
6.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
56.9 GW
Solar
75.7 GW
Total generation
+12.9 GW
Net export
-21.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 660.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 56.9 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the canvas from centre to right, angled southward, glinting intensely under a cloudless midday April sun. Wind onshore 4.9 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a gentle ridge at the far right, their blades barely turning in the light 8 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is a thin line of turbines on a distant hazy horizon. Biomass 4.1 GW is represented by a timber-clad biogas facility with a green domed digester and small exhaust stack at the left-centre margin. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway in the foreground left, water catching sunlight. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing white steam plumes into the clear sky. Natural gas 2.5 GW stands beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller conventional boiler house with a single square chimney just visible behind the gas plant. The sky is perfectly clear, luminous pale blue, sun high and bright at roughly 55° elevation — early afternoon spring light in central Germany. The landscape is fresh spring green, young leaves on scattered deciduous trees, wildflowers beginning in meadow strips between panel rows, temperature mild. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting the negative electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting: rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower curve, reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich's spatial grandeur fused with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision. No text, no labels.