Solar at 32.9 GW and wind at 17.4 GW drive 91% renewable share, pushing prices negative amid 13.5 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 54%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
17.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.9 GW
Solar
61.0 GW
Total generation
+13.5 GW
Net export
-1.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.5°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 211.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
61
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 32.9 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling Central German farmland, their surfaces reflecting a bright but uniformly overcast white-silver sky; wind onshore 13.5 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning steadily in moderate breeze; wind offshore 3.9 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon, barely visible through atmospheric haze; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a woodchip storage dome and single smokestack emitting pale steam, positioned left of centre; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes against the overcast sky, beside a lignite conveyor and open-pit mine edge; natural gas 1.8 GW sits as a compact single-stack CCGT plant with a clean exhaust plume, nestled between the coal plant and biomass facility; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with spillway in the foreground, a river threading through the scene; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single modest smokestack barely visible behind the lignite towers. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover but luminous and bright — a high, thin white ceiling of cloud diffusing strong midday light across the landscape at 15:00, casting soft even illumination with no shadows. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green leaves on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow grass, temperature around 11°C suggesting cool dampness — figures in the distance wear light jackets. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and spacious, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's concrete texture. No text, no labels.