Solar at 34.5 GW drives 90.5% renewable share, yielding 2.3 GW net export at near-zero price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 74%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.5 GW
Solar
46.8 GW
Total generation
+2.3 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
30.0% / 122.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
65
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 34.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under a bright mid-morning sun at 09:00 with partly cloudy skies (30% cloud cover, high cumulus). Brown coal 2.4 GW appears in the left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily. Biomass 4.4 GW is represented in the mid-ground as a cluster of wood-chip-fed combined heat and power plants with short industrial stacks and modest exhaust. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack near the brown coal plant. Wind onshore 1.8 GW appears as a small row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the calm air. Hydro 1.4 GW is shown as a small run-of-river weir along a gentle stream in the foreground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant smokestack, nearly idle. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is suggested as tiny turbines on a far hazy horizon line. The landscape is lush late-spring green — fresh beech and oak leaves, wildflower meadows, rapeseed fields in fading yellow. Temperature is a mild 17.8°C, the atmosphere soft and luminous. The sky is mostly blue with gentle white clouds, the light bright and welcoming, reflecting the near-zero electricity price with an open, expansive, calm feeling. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into blue-grey distance. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles, lattice towers, aluminium PV frames with visible cell grids, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.