Solar at 33.7 GW drives 91% renewable share and 3.9 GW net export at near-zero prices on a mild spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 66%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.7 GW
Solar
50.7 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
-0.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.3°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 254.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
60
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.7 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under diffuse afternoon daylight; wind onshore 5.1 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a gentle ridge left of centre, blades barely turning in light breeze; wind offshore 2.2 GW is visible in the far background as a line of offshore turbines on a hazy North Sea horizon; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a modest stack and wispy white exhaust; brown coal 2.3 GW occupies the far left as a pair of large hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising vertically in the still air; natural gas 1.7 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a green reservoir nestled in a valley in the left middle distance; hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small dark smokestack barely active at the far left edge. The sky is a uniform bright overcast — a full 100% cloud layer lit from behind by the afternoon sun at 15:00, casting soft shadowless light over everything, the disc of the sun faintly visible as a brighter patch high in the southern sky. The landscape is lush late-spring Germany: fresh green deciduous trees, rapeseed fields with fading yellow blooms, temperature around 21°C conveyed by light clothing on a few tiny human figures near a farm. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, with a sense of quiet abundance. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening into blue-grey haze at the horizon — yet every technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice sub-structures, panel racking systems, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.