Wind and solar together deliver nearly 50 GW under full overcast, driving prices to -40 EUR/MWh with 11.7 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 38%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 41%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
25.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.6 GW
Solar
60.2 GW
Total generation
+11.7 GW
Net export
-40.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 32.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 23.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding across rolling spring farmland, rotors turning in moderate wind; solar 24.6 GW fills the left-centre foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching toward the horizon, their surfaces reflecting grey-white diffuse light under total overcast; brown coal 2.5 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of steam; natural gas 1.9 GW sits just left of centre as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal flue output; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground cluster of small industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and a short smokestack emitting faint vapour; wind offshore 2.1 GW is glimpsed as distant turbines on the far horizon at the right edge suggesting a North Sea coastline; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a valley fold in the middle distance; hard coal 0.6 GW is a single modest smokestack barely visible behind the biomass plant. The sky is entirely overcast with a flat, luminous white-grey cloud layer — full April daytime at 10:00 but no direct sunlight, soft diffuse illumination casting almost no shadows. The landscape is early spring: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees, patches of yellow rapeseed beginning to bloom, temperature around 12°C suggesting cool mild air. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price — no oppressive mood, rather a sense of quiet oversupply and spacious stillness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with soft aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower shell, and gas-plant exhaust stack. The composition evokes a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels, no human figures prominent.