Solar at 44.5 GW drives 90% renewables, pushing Germany to 6.5 GW net export at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.5 GW
Solar
57.1 GW
Total generation
+6.5 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
29.0% / 492.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
69
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 44.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under bright late-morning sun at 11:00 with only sparse cumulus clouds in a mostly blue sky. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of medium-scale wood-chip power plants with modest chimneys and stored fuel piles at the mid-left. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin white steam plumes above a lignite pit. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic housings, placed behind the solar field on the left-center. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse nestled along a tree-lined stream in the middle distance. Wind onshore 0.9 GW shows as two or three tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors nearly still in the calm air. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is hinted at by a barely visible row of turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right. Hard coal 0.8 GW appears as a single industrial stack with a faint heat shimmer near the brown coal towers. Spring vegetation: fresh green fields, scattered wildflowers, young beech leaves. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, an open expansive sky suggesting effortless abundance. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower curve, and CCGT stack. No text, no labels.