Solar at 41.1 GW drives 88% renewables, pushing 7.8 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
88%
Renewable share
4.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.1 GW
Solar
57.7 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
5.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.9°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 361.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
88
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.1 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer farmland, their surfaces catching diffuse bright light through a luminous white-grey overcast sky. Brown coal 4.3 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint steam plumes rising into the hazy sky, adjacent to a lignite mine's terraced earth. Biomass 3.8 GW appears in the centre-left as a compact biomass plant with a cylindrical silo and short smokestack amid green trees. Wind onshore 3.2 GW stands as a scattered line of five three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a gentle ridge in the mid-distance, blades barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.5 GW is rendered as a small dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley at the far left. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack near the coal plant. Wind offshore 1.1 GW appears as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line suggesting the distant sea. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a modest conventional plant with a single square stack beside the brown coal towers. The sky is fully overcast yet intensely bright — a hot, glowing white-grey dome of high summer cloud at 10:00 AM, the diffuse light strong and shadowless, the air shimmering at 28°C. Lush midsummer vegetation: tall green wheat, wildflowers, dense deciduous canopy. The atmosphere is calm and serene, matching the near-zero electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich's compositional grandeur combined with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision — rich saturated greens and warm earth tones, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening the distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel edge, every cooling tower's concrete ribs. No text, no labels.