Solar at 44.6 GW drives 90.6% renewable share and 6.5 GW net export under near-zero pricing.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 79%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.6 GW
Solar
56.7 GW
Total generation
+6.5 GW
Net export
-0.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.7°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
88.0% / 417.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 44.6 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green spring farmland, occupying roughly four-fifths of the composition. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of small timber-clad biomass plants with modest chimneys trailing thin white smoke, placed in the mid-ground left. Brown coal 3.0 GW is rendered as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast, positioned at the far left background. Natural gas 1.7 GW shows a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, tucked behind a tree line at centre-left. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a stone-walled run-of-river weir with churning white water in the lower left foreground. Wind onshore 0.9 GW and wind offshore 0.5 GW appear as a handful of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers standing motionless on a distant ridge at far right, their rotors barely turning. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single small coal plant stack with a wisp of grey exhaust, nearly hidden behind the solar field. TIME OF DAY: full midday daylight, but the sky is thickly overcast at 88% cloud cover — a bright milky-white canopy with patches of thin cloud letting strong diffuse light through; no harsh shadows but the landscape is well-lit. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green wheat fields, blooming rapeseed in yellow patches, deciduous trees in new leaf. Temperature is mild at 14.7°C — no haze, crisp air. The atmosphere is calm and tranquil, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. STYLE: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: PV panel grid lines visible, cooling tower parabolic curves precise, turbine nacelle housings detailed. The painting feels like a Caspar David Friedrich composition reimagined for the industrial-renewable age — vast, contemplative, luminous. No text, no labels.