Massive solar output of 43.1 GW under clear skies drives 16.7 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 69%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.1 GW
Solar
62.7 GW
Total generation
+16.7 GW
Net export
-10.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 531.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
102
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Free Power
#1
Export Champion
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Solar 43.1 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, angled southward, glinting brilliantly under full midday sun. Brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into still air. Wind onshore 5.2 GW appears as a line of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills in the right middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard just behind the solar fields, slightly left of centre. Natural gas 2.5 GW appears as a single modern CCGT plant with a streamlined exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer, positioned between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular stack in the far left distance, partially obscured by the brown coal complex. Hydro 1.1 GW is visible as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a gentle river winding through the right foreground. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is omitted from the scene. The sky is entirely cloudless, a luminous pale spring blue, with the March sun high and intense at 1 PM, casting short crisp shadows. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive weight, just vast bright stillness. Early spring vegetation: fields showing fresh pale green shoots, bare deciduous trees just beginning to bud, scattered patches of brown winter grass. Temperature is mild at 13°C, light jackets weather. The landscape is gently rolling central German terrain. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with subtle aerial perspective hazing the distant power plants. Each technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: nacelle housings, lattice substructures, panel bus-bar wiring, cooling tower parabolic profiles. The composition balances the overwhelming solar expanse against the smaller industrial elements, conveying the sheer dominance of photovoltaic generation. No text, no labels.