Solar at 38.7 GW drives 92% renewable share and 7.7 GW net export under overcast but luminous May skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
6.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.7 GW
Solar
54.7 GW
Total generation
+7.7 GW
Net export
-1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.9°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 445.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground and middle-ground plain covered with row after row of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting a bright but diffuse white-grey sky — occupying roughly 70% of the composition. Wind onshore 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle green hills at centre-right, their rotors barely turning in negligible wind. Wind offshore 2.3 GW is visible in the far distance as a line of taller offshore turbines standing in a hazy North Sea glimpsed through a gap in the terrain. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as two modest timber-clad biogas plants with small cylindrical digesters and low exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour, placed at the left-centre edge. Brown coal 2.3 GW occupies the far left background as a pair of large hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle steam plumes rising into the overcast, beside a lignite conveyor and boiler house. Natural gas 1.6 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, tucked beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a green-banked stream in the right foreground. Hard coal 0.4 GW appears as a single distant smokestack with the faintest wisp of exhaust. Time of day: early afternoon in May — full daylight, but the sky is a luminous uniform white-grey overcast at 100% cloud cover, with no direct sun disk visible yet strong ambient brightness; the light is soft and shadowless. Temperature 20.9°C: lush spring-green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadow edges, fresh grass between panel rows. Calm atmosphere with no wind motion in vegetation or clouds, conveying a low-price serene mood — open, expansive, tranquil. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every technology element (turbine nacelle housings, PV cell grids, cooling tower concrete ribbing, CCGT ducting). The composition balances industrial grandeur with pastoral calm. No text, no labels.