Solar at 45.6 GW drives 93% renewable share, pushing prices negative with 16 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 5%
93%
Renewable share
9.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.6 GW
Solar
64.8 GW
Total generation
+16.0 GW
Net export
-1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
15.0% / 698.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 45.6 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills and farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, glinting intensely under a brilliant midday sun in a nearly cloudless pale-blue sky with only faint wisps of cirrus at 15% cover. Wind onshore 8.0 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle ridgelines in the mid-ground, their blades turning slowly in the light 4.3 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is visible as a small cluster of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line beyond a river estuary at the far right. Biomass 3.7 GW is represented by two modest industrial facilities with timber-clad facades and low stacks releasing thin white vapour, nestled among the solar arrays. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river dam with spillway and powerhouse on a broad river in the middle distance. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting lazy steam plumes, with a conveyor belt of dark lignite visible. Natural gas 1.4 GW is a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, nearly idle, beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a barely visible small stack behind the gas plant, almost dormant. Late-spring vegetation is lush — bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflower meadows, warm 23°C atmosphere with soft heat shimmer. The sky is open, calm, luminous — reflecting the negative electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a hazy blue horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.