Solar at 26.7 GW dominates a 91% renewable grid with near-zero residual load and low wholesale prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 62%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.7 GW
Solar
43.0 GW
Total generation
-0.0 GW
Net import
14.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.9°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 352.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
60
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.7 GW dominates the scene: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretch across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their blue-black surfaces catching diffuse light under an overcast sky. Wind onshore 6.6 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-and-tubular towers along a gentle ridge in the centre-left middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate wind. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a cluster of rectangular wood-chip power stations with short stacks trailing thin grey exhaust in the left-centre. Brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes, beside a conveyor belt carrying dark lignite. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery unit, tucked between the coal towers and biomass facility. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam with cascading water visible in a valley at the far left edge. Wind offshore 0.6 GW appears as a faint row of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line at centre-right. The sky is dusk at 17:00 in late May Berlin — the sun is still above the horizon but fully veiled by a uniform layer of high cloud, casting warm but diffused amber-orange light across the landscape; the western horizon glows softly with a muted peach-to-copper gradient, while the upper sky transitions to pale grey-blue. The air feels warm at 26°C; lush green deciduous trees in full spring foliage line field edges, grass is tall and swaying gently. The mood is calm and expansive, reflecting a low electricity price. Style: 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 aerial perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and stack. No text, no labels.