Solar at 52.8 GW under clear skies drives 92% renewable share and net exports of 11 GW at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 77%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
52.8 GW
Solar
68.7 GW
Total generation
+11.0 GW
Net export
-0.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1.0% / 622.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 52.8 GW dominates the entire scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching from the foreground deep into the middle distance, their aluminium frames glinting under an almost cloudless brilliant midday sun — panels covering roughly three-quarters of the visual area. Wind onshore 2.1 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a gentle hill to the far right, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon beyond a river. Brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin, wispy steam plumes into the blue sky. Biomass 3.8 GW sits as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a green domed digester and short exhaust stack near the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.8 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal vapour trail, tucked beside the coal plant. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small dam and spillway visible along the river in the mid-ground. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a single barely-smoking stack nearly lost behind the solar field. The sky is vast, nearly perfectly clear with only the faintest high cirrus wisps, deep cerulean blue, sunlight intense and high — full noon lighting with short shadows beneath the panels. The landscape is late-May central German: lush green meadows, wildflowers at panel edges, deciduous trees in full bright leaf, warm 23°C atmosphere with a soft haze on the distant horizon. The mood is calm, open, and luminous — reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into pale blue distance — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete surface. No text, no labels.