Solar at 40 GW drives massive midday oversupply, pushing prices to −79.5 EUR/MWh with 10.8 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
6.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.1 GW
Solar
56.2 GW
Total generation
+10.7 GW
Net export
-79.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
86% / 340.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
54
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering nearly three-quarters of the composition from foreground to middle distance, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse midday light. Wind onshore 6.0 GW appears as a cluster of modern three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-free tubular towers on a gentle ridge at right, blades turning slowly in light wind. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack emitting thin white exhaust, nestled among bare-branching early-spring trees at centre-left. Brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with rising steam plumes against the overcast sky. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a swollen stream in the lower foreground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a distant single smokestack barely visible on the left horizon. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy far horizon. The sky is mostly overcast at 86% cloud cover, but strong patches of direct sunlight break through gaps, casting bright shafts onto the solar fields — a dramatic chiaroscuro effect. Spring vegetation is just emerging: pale green buds on deciduous trees, fresh grass, ploughed brown fields. The temperature of 10.6°C is conveyed by cool-toned light and figures in light jackets near a farm road. The deeply negative price is evoked by a vast, calm, almost oppressively open sky with luminous silver-grey clouds — a sense of overabundance and stillness. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding to a misty horizon — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower fluting is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.