Solar at 35.2 GW drives 93% renewables, negative prices, and 8.1 GW net export on a warm overcast afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 70%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.2 GW
Solar
50.2 GW
Total generation
+8.1 GW
Net export
-2.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.4°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 365.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
45
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 35.2 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground and middle-ground expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills, their aluminium frames catching diffuse white light under a uniformly overcast sky. Wind onshore 6.2 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers along a gentle ridge in the right-centre, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a compact wood-clad biomass plant with a modest exhaust stack releasing pale vapour, positioned in the middle distance at left. Brown coal 1.7 GW occupies a small area at the far left horizon as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the overcast. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack, set beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam visible in a valley at the far right. Wind offshore 0.5 GW appears as faint turbine silhouettes barely visible on the distant horizon line. The sky is entirely cloud-covered yet luminous, a flat bright pearl-grey with no blue patches, casting even shadowless daylight at 4 PM in late May. The temperature of 26.4 °C is conveyed through lush, full green foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers blooming in meadow strips between panel rows, and a slight heat shimmer over dark panel surfaces. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive heaviness, just serene abundance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every technology depicted. No text, no labels.