Solar at 33 GW and wind at 17 GW drive 92% renewable share, pushing prices to −26 EUR/MWh with 12.5 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 55%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
16.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.1 GW
Solar
60.1 GW
Total generation
+12.5 GW
Net export
-26.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
64% / 263.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.1 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-black surfaces catching diffused but substantial daylight through broken clouds. Wind onshore 15.2 GW fills the upper background as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers marching along ridgelines, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.8 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon line at the far right. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with wood-chip storage silos and a modest smokestack at centre-left. Brown coal 2.1 GW appears in the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of steam, proportionally small. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single exhaust stack and minimal visible output. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller stack near the brown coal plant, barely active. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small river with a weir and turbine house in the foreground valley. The sky is April mid-morning at 10:00 in central Germany: full daylight, the sun visible as a bright disc partially veiled by layered cumulus clouds covering roughly two-thirds of the sky, with generous blue patches allowing strong diffused and intermittent direct sunlight, creating dappled shadows across the landscape. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive—consistent with deeply negative electricity prices. Vegetation is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, some bare branches, bright green meadow grass. Temperature is cool at 8°C, a crispness in the air suggested by faint mist in the valley. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous cloud study—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid pattern, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.