Massive 39.3 GW solar output drives deeply negative prices as Germany exports nearly 10 GW at midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 74%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
4.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.3 GW
Solar
53.1 GW
Total generation
+9.6 GW
Net export
-125.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
77% / 378.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 39.3 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right two-thirds with vast rolling fields of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels — aluminium frames glinting under midday light filtering through broken clouds. Wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a modest line of three-blade turbines on a ridge in the upper-left background, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Biomass 3.9 GW is depicted as a cluster of small wood-chip power plants with modest exhaust stacks and timber yards in the left-centre middle ground. Brown coal 2.1 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising against the sky. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits as a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a stream in the foreground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single distant smokestack barely visible on the far-left horizon. The sky is midday bright but 77% covered by high broken cumulus clouds, with strong shafts of direct sunlight breaking through gaps and illuminating the PV fields in dramatic golden patches. Early spring landscape: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, cool-toned grass, patches of bare brown earth, temperature around 12°C. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting deeply negative electricity prices — no oppressive weight, only luminous spaciousness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on all energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.