Solar at 30.2 GW drives 89% renewable share under overcast skies, pushing net exports to 3.2 GW at suppressed prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 62%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
8.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.2 GW
Solar
49.1 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
11.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.0°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 131.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
77
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 30.2 GW dominates the scene: the entire foreground and right two-thirds are covered with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon, their glass surfaces reflecting a uniformly overcast, bright white-grey sky. Wind onshore 6.7 GW appears as clusters of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles on gentle green hills in the mid-ground, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the far horizon, barely visible through haze. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack emitting thin white steam, positioned in the left mid-ground. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy plumes of white steam rising into the overcast sky, plus a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and streamlined turbine hall, tucked between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and spillway visible along a river cutting through the mid-ground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The lighting is full midday daylight but entirely diffused — no shadows, no direct sun, a flat bright overcast ceiling of clouds at 100% coverage. Spring vegetation: lush green grass between panel rows, deciduous trees in fresh leaf. Temperature 16°C gives a mild, temperate atmosphere. The low electricity price is conveyed by a calm, open, spacious composition with generous sky. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich colour palette of greens, silvers, and muted greys, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant elements, meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology. No text, no labels.