Solar at 36.2 GW drives a net export of 8.4 GW under overcast skies, collapsing the day-ahead price to zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 64%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
9.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.2 GW
Solar
56.6 GW
Total generation
+8.4 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 134.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering nearly two-thirds of the composition from centre to right, their dark blue-black surfaces reflecting a flat white overcast sky. Wind onshore 7.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers receding into the hazy middle distance on gently rising hills, their rotors turning slowly in a light breeze. Wind offshore 2.5 GW is suggested by a cluster of turbines visible on the far horizon where land meets a faint grey sea. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest biogas facility with cylindrical green digesters and a low exhaust stack emitting thin white vapour, positioned in the left-centre midground beside a barn. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting leftward, adjacent to a lignite power station with conveyor belts and a dark spoil heap. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall silver exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze, tucked between the coal plant and the biomass facility. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a stone dam visible along a gentle river cutting through the foreground meadow. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a distant single smokestack with a barely perceptible wisp. The time is 1:00 PM under full daylight, but the sky is entirely overcast — a uniform white-grey ceiling of stratus cloud with no blue visible, yet the scene is brightly and evenly lit with flat, shadowless diffuse light. The landscape shows mid-May spring: fresh bright-green deciduous foliage, wildflowers in the meadow grass, lush pasture. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, conveying a sense of quiet abundance. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated greens, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the distant cooling towers into haze, dramatic compositional sweep from industrial left to solar-covered pastoral right. Meticulous engineering detail on all technologies: turbine nacelles with anemometers, PV panel junction boxes and racking systems, cooling tower parabolic curvature. No text, no labels.