Solar at 46.9 GW drives 77% renewable share and 4.9 GW net export under overcast but bright skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 68%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
77%
Renewable share
0.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.9 GW
Solar
68.9 GW
Total generation
+4.9 GW
Net export
4.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.4°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 318.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
152
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling fields occupying roughly two-thirds of the canvas, their aluminium frames catching diffused white light under a bright but fully overcast sky. Natural gas 6.6 GW appears as a cluster of compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks releasing thin heat shimmer in the centre-left middle ground. Brown coal 6.2 GW is rendered as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the pale grey clouds, positioned at the left edge. Hard coal 2.9 GW shows as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single smokestack behind the cooling towers. Biomass 4.6 GW is depicted as a mid-sized wood-chip generation facility with domed digesters and a modest chimney, nestled among bare-branching early-spring trees at the right edge. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the far background. Wind onshore 0.4 GW is a single distant three-blade turbine on a lattice tower, its rotor barely turning in the still air. The time is 11:00 AM in late April — full diffuse daylight, sky entirely covered with high white-grey stratiform clouds, no blue visible, yet the scene is luminous and bright. Temperature is mild at 12°C; vegetation shows early spring green with fresh buds on deciduous trees and damp plowed fields. The air is calm, nearly windless — no motion in grass or leaves. The low electricity price creates a serene, open, unhurried atmosphere. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel junction box, cooling tower shell, and CCGT exhaust stack. No text, no labels.