Solar at 48.8 GW drives 91% renewables, pushing 11.8 GW of net exports at negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 69%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
10.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.8 GW
Solar
70.6 GW
Total generation
+11.8 GW
Net export
-26.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.9°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94.0% / 132.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
62
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.8 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering rolling central German farmland still tinged with early spring green; wind onshore 8.1 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered across hills in the right third of the composition, blades turning briskly in moderate wind; wind offshore 2.2 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines visible on a hazy horizon at far right; brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes; natural gas 2.1 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; hard coal 1.4 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular smokestack producing a wisp of grey; biomass 4.1 GW is represented by several mid-sized industrial facilities with wood-chip storage silos and low stacks amid the solar fields; hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir nestled into a valley at far left. The sky is heavily overcast at 94% cloud cover — a thick, uniform pale-grey blanket of stratus — but it is full midday daylight at 13:00, so the scene is bright and evenly lit with soft, diffuse illumination and no shadows. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. Temperature near 10°C shows in bare-branched deciduous trees just beginning to bud, damp meadow grass, and cool spring tones. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth crossed with meticulous industrial-age realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous overcast sky rendered with subtle grey and pearl tones, each technology painted with precise engineering detail. No text, no labels.