Solar at 26.8 GW and wind at 21.1 GW drive nearly 90% renewable generation on a clear, breezy spring evening.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 45%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
21.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.8 GW
Solar
59.4 GW
Total generation
+1.8 GW
Net export
22.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.4°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 461.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 26.8 GW dominates the centre and right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward a low western sun, their glass surfaces blazing with reflected orange-gold light; wind onshore 16.1 GW fills the mid-ground as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling green spring hills, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 5.0 GW appears on the distant left horizon as a line of white offshore turbines rising from a faintly visible sea; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a rectangular stack emitting thin pale exhaust, nestled among trees at centre-left; brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing modest steam plumes; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and small vapour trail beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller conventional boiler house with a single squat chimney and wisp of grey smoke adjacent to the gas plant; hydro 1.3 GW is depicted as a stone-faced dam with white water cascading into a river in the left foreground. Time of day is 17:00 in late April: the sun is descending in the west, casting long amber-orange light across the landscape, the sky above transitioning from warm gold near the horizon to a deepening blue overhead, completely clear with zero clouds. Spring vegetation is lush — bright green grass, blossoming cherry and apple trees with white and pink petals, fresh beech leaves. Temperature is mild at 17°C. The low electricity price is conveyed through a calm, expansive, open sky with no oppressive atmosphere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower concrete ribbing, and CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.