Solar at 50.6 GW under clear skies drives a 6.6 GW net export and a near-zero price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 74%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
8.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.6 GW
Solar
68.6 GW
Total generation
+6.6 GW
Net export
-0.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 543.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
46
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 50.6 GW dominates roughly three-quarters of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across a gently rolling central German landscape under blazing late-morning sun; wind onshore 6.5 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a ridge in the middle distance, blades rotating slowly in light wind; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a small group of turbines on a far horizon line; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a timber-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack and woodchip storage yard at the left edge; brown coal 2.5 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising from a lignite plant in the far left background; hydro 1.7 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water spilling over a concrete dam in the lower-left foreground; natural gas 1.6 GW shows as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack barely emitting, tucked behind the biomass plant; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller stack visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous blue with direct sun high in the southeast casting sharp shadows; the atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Late-May vegetation is lush — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow strips between panel rows, warm 20°C spring air. 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 lending depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module busbar, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. The scene reads as a monumental pastoral-industrial landscape, light flooding from upper right, no text or labels.