Solar at 46.8 GW drives 91% renewable share and 11 GW net export at negative prices on an April afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
11.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.8 GW
Solar
70.3 GW
Total generation
+11.0 GW
Net export
-29.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 512.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.8 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle distance as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, their blue-black surfaces catching diffused bright daylight; wind onshore 11.3 GW fills the mid-ground and right third of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on white tubular towers, rotors spinning moderately in the breeze across green spring fields; brown coal 3.2 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wispy steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 2.0 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and low rectangular heat recovery units beside the cooling towers; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller single-stack plant partially obscured behind the lignite facility; biomass 4.1 GW occupies the left-center as a cluster of wood-clad biomass CHP buildings with short chimneys and stored wood-chip piles; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small weir and run-of-river plant along a stream in the valley; wind offshore 0.6 GW is a faint line of turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon. The sky is completely overcast with a bright luminous white-grey cloud layer typical of full daylight at 14:00 in late April — high-albedo clouds thin enough to transmit strong diffused sunlight, giving the landscape an even, shadowless but distinctly bright illumination. Spring vegetation: fresh bright green grass, early leaf canopy on scattered deciduous trees, rapeseed patches in yellow. The atmosphere feels calm, expansive, and unhurried — reflecting a negative electricity price — with open pastoral space and no oppressive tones. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue-grey at the horizon — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct nacelle shapes, lattice sub-structures on turbine foundations, panel wiring conduits, cooling tower parabolic curvature, steam thermodynamics. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.