Solar at 36.7 GW drives 70% of generation, pushing a 2.2 GW net export and near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 70%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
4.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.7 GW
Solar
52.5 GW
Total generation
+2.2 GW
Net export
1.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
19.0% / 138.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.7 GW dominates the scene as an immense sweep of crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly 70% of the composition from foreground through the middle distance, their aluminium frames glinting under bright mid-morning sunlight. Offshore wind 2.9 GW appears at the far upper-right horizon as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines rising from a hazy coastal suggestion. Onshore wind 1.6 GW is rendered as a handful of smaller lattice-tower turbines on a distant ridge, blades turning lazily in light breeze. Brown coal 2.9 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes against the sky. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a timber storage yard and a single broad smokestack, positioned left of centre behind the solar arrays. Natural gas 1.7 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and minimal vapour, tucked beside the biomass plant. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a small, partially idle plant with a single squat stack, barely visible at the far left edge. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a concrete dam with water flowing through a gorge in the far background. The sky is 81% clear — vast, luminous, pale spring blue with a few wispy cumulus clouds, the sun high in the east-southeast casting crisp shadows. The landscape is lush late-May green: fresh beech and linden leaves, wildflowers in meadow strips between panel rows, rapeseed fields blooming yellow in the distance. The atmosphere is calm, serene, and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressiveness, no tension. Temperature around 15°C gives a cool spring crispness. 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 colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with subtle aerial perspective, golden-warm foreground light. Every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy — three-blade rotors with nacelles, aluminium PV frames with blue-black cells, hyperbolic reinforced-concrete cooling towers, CCGT heat-recovery stacks. The scene conveys an industrial landscape transformed by solar abundance, painted as if it were a masterwork hanging in the Alte Nationalgalerie. No text, no labels.