Solar at 43.5 GW under clear skies drives 15.8 GW net export and a slightly negative price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 69%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 5%
93%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.5 GW
Solar
63.4 GW
Total generation
+15.8 GW
Net export
-0.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.6°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
3.0% / 716.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 43.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their blue-black surfaces glinting under intense midday sunlight. Wind onshore 8.8 GW appears as dozens of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along a gentle ridge in the right third of the composition, blades turning slowly in a light breeze. Wind offshore 1.1 GW is suggested by a small cluster of turbines visible on a hazy horizon line at far right above a distant river. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the left background as a pair of large hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes, with conveyor belts and a lignite bunker visible at their base. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a modest industrial facility with a timber-clad storage dome and a single low smokestack with faint exhaust, situated just left of centre behind the solar field. Hydro 1.6 GW is rendered as a concrete run-of-river weir with water cascading over spillways along a tree-lined river in the left middle ground. Natural gas 1.4 GW is a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour, tucked behind the cooling towers. Hard coal 0.2 GW is a nearly idle plant with a single dark smokestack, no visible emissions, partially obscured by trees at the far left edge. The sky is almost entirely clear — only 3% cloud cover — a radiant, luminous cerulean blue with the sun high and brilliant at 14:00 local time, casting short crisp shadows. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting a negative electricity price. Late-May vegetation is lush: bright green deciduous canopy, wildflower meadows between panel rows, warm 24.6 °C air creating a slight heat shimmer above the panels. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blues at the horizon — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower flute is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.