Solar at 54.6 GW under clear skies drives 15.2 GW net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 72%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
9.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
54.6 GW
Solar
75.7 GW
Total generation
+15.1 GW
Net export
-49.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 659.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 54.6 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across most of the canvas, their aluminium frames glinting under brilliant midday sun; wind onshore 8.1 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a gentle ridge at centre-right, blades turning in moderate wind; wind offshore 1.7 GW is visible as a small row of turbines on the distant horizon over a faint sea line; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-fired plant with a compact smokestack and small timber yard at centre-left; brown coal 2.6 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam in the far left background; natural gas 2.3 GW is a single CCGT unit with a sleek exhaust stack and minimal heat shimmer beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.2 GW is a small conventional power station with a single square chimney barely trailing smoke, tucked behind the gas plant; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam nestled in green hills at the far right edge. The sky is completely clear, deep cerulean blue, zero clouds, the April sun high and fierce at 1 PM, casting sharp shadows. The landscape is spring in central Germany: fresh bright-green deciduous foliage, flowering rapeseed fields in yellow patches between the solar arrays, mild 16°C atmosphere with a calm, open, almost weightless quality reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective into blue-hazed distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's concrete curvature. No text, no labels.