Solar at 49.1 GW under clear skies drives 91.7% renewable share and near-zero prices on a warm May afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 80%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.1 GW
Solar
61.2 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
1.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 730.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
58
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills, occupying roughly 80% of the canvas, blazing under full 15:00 afternoon sun. Brown coal 2.9 GW appears as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers on the far left horizon, releasing thin wisps of white steam. Biomass 3.7 GW is represented as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage yard and a modest smokestack to the left of centre. Hydro 1.9 GW shows as a stone-walled dam with spillway cascading water in the middle distance. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible exhaust, placed near the coal plant. Wind onshore 1.1 GW is depicted as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in light wind. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is just visible as tiny turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of sea. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small conventional power station with a squat chimney, nearly hidden behind the solar expanse. The sky is completely clear, deep cobalt blue with no clouds whatsoever, the late-spring sun high and warm. The landscape is lush late-May central German countryside — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses, wildflowers. The atmosphere is calm, luminous, open and serene, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy blue distance — yet every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice tower structures, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic geometry. No text, no labels.