Solar at 29.6 GW under overcast skies drives 90% renewable share and deeply negative prices at -98.7 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 60%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
9.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
29.6 GW
Solar
49.5 GW
Total generation
+6.1 GW
Net export
-98.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.7°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 46.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 29.6 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly 60% of the canvas from centre to right, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting the flat white light of a fully overcast sky. Wind onshore 9.2 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles scattered across the mid-ground hills, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is visible as a faint cluster of turbines on a distant grey horizon line at the far right. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as several mid-sized industrial facilities with rectangular silos and squat chimneys emitting thin pale exhaust, positioned in the left-centre middle ground. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes drifting in the breeze, adjacent to a conveyor belt and a lignite pit. Natural gas 1.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the cooling towers and biomass facilities. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller stack with a wisp of darker exhaust beside the lignite plant. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a river in the foreground with a low concrete weir and small powerhouse. The sky is entirely overcast — a thick, uniform blanket of pale grey-white stratus clouds at 14:00 in April, providing bright but completely diffuse daylight with no shadows and no visible sun disk. The atmosphere feels strangely calm and weightless, reflecting the deeply negative price — open, airy, almost too generous. Spring vegetation: fresh bright green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers at field edges. Temperature around 16°C gives a mild, gentle feel. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding into haze — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.