Solar at 44 GW drives 91.5% renewable share and near-zero prices despite full overcast skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
3.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.0 GW
Solar
58.4 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
-0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.8°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 102.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
61
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 44.0 GW dominates the composition, filling roughly three-quarters of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle central German farmland under a bright but fully overcast white-grey sky at 11:00 midday — diffuse light illuminating every surface evenly with no shadows. Brown coal 3.0 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes, beside a conveyor belt and lignite stockpile. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a mid-ground combined heat and power plant with a modest stack and woodchip storage silos nestled among linden trees in full June leaf. Wind onshore 2.5 GW shows a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir and small powerhouse along a tree-lined river in the middle distance. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack, minimal exhaust visible. Wind offshore 1.4 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on the far horizon. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small industrial stack at the far left edge, nearly dormant. The sky is uniformly bright overcast — luminous pearl-white ceiling of stratus cloud, no blue visible, no direct sun disc, yet the landscape is fully daylit in warm midsummer tones. Lush green vegetation, wildflowers at panel edges, temperature around 23°C conveyed through summer haze and warm palette. The atmosphere feels calm, expansive, unhurried — reflecting the zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct nacelle shapes, three-blade rotors, panel racking, hyperbolic tower geometry, turbine lattice towers. No text, no labels.