Solar at 38.3 GW drives a 5.6 GW net export with prices near zero under partly cloudy skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 68%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 6%
91%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.3 GW
Solar
56.7 GW
Total generation
+5.6 GW
Net export
3.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.3°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
43.0% / 242.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.3 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green farmland in the foreground and middle ground, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under bright late-morning daylight. Wind onshore 6.1 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a gentle ridge to the right, their blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is visible as a faint cluster of turbines on a distant hazy horizon line at far right. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biogas facility with a green domed digester and a thin exhaust stack emitting pale vapor, nestled among trees at mid-left. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising against the sky, flanked by a conveyor gantry and coal bunker. Hydro 1.8 GW appears as a concrete dam with white spillway water cascading down a wooded valley in the left middle distance. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal exhaust haze, placed between the cooling towers and the solar field. Hard coal 0.2 GW is barely visible as a single small smokestack behind trees, almost lost in the landscape. The sky is bright with direct sun at a high mid-morning angle from the east-southeast, partially veiled by scattered cumulus clouds covering about 40% of a vivid blue sky — light is warm, casting gentle shadows. Late-spring vegetation: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadow edges, fresh crops in fields, temperature suggesting comfortable warmth. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting near-zero electricity prices — no oppressive haze, no tension, just expansive luminous serenity. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated color palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with soft blue-grey distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel array, and cooling tower, evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale merged with industrial realism. No text, no labels.