Solar at 38.5 GW and wind at 15.6 GW drive a 90.9% renewable share, pushing prices negative and enabling 8.2 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
15.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.5 GW
Solar
65.3 GW
Total generation
+8.2 GW
Net export
-1.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 577.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, covering nearly 60% of the composition from the centre to the right, their aluminium frames gleaming under intense afternoon sun. Wind onshore 13.5 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on ridgelines behind the solar fields, rotors turning briskly in a 22 km/h breeze; wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line at far right. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip-fed power station with a green-roofed boiler hall and a single steam stack at left-centre. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin wisps of steam, with a conveyor belt of lignite visible. Natural gas 2.0 GW sits beside the lignite plant as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine block with a slender exhaust stack and small heat recovery unit. Hard coal 1.3 GW appears as a smaller conventional boiler house with a single tapered chimney releasing a faint plume. Hydro 1.1 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a sunlit stream in the mid-ground. The sky is completely clear, zero cloud cover, deep cerulean blue, with the sun at a western 16:00 April angle casting long warm golden light across the landscape, vivid green spring foliage on deciduous trees, rapeseed fields blooming yellow. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting the negative electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, meticulous atmospheric perspective — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with precise engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust ducting. No text, no labels.