Massive solar output of 51.4 GW under clear skies drives 10.8 GW net export and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 76%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
4.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.4 GW
Solar
68.0 GW
Total generation
+10.8 GW
Net export
-11.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 562.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 51.4 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a brilliant midday sun in a cloudless pale-blue spring sky, angled south on metal racking over early-spring green grass and budding trees. Brown coal 3.4 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air. Wind onshore 3.4 GW and offshore 1.2 GW are rendered as a modest line of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a low ridge in the middle distance, their blades barely turning in the light breeze. Natural gas 2.3 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a low rectangular heat-recovery steam generator beside the coal complex. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a small conventional plant with a single smokestack and conveyor belt, tucked behind the gas units. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-clad power station with a dome-topped silo and thin plume near the right edge. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and spillway along a river in the foreground. The atmosphere is calm and luminous — warm spring light at 13:00, temperature around 12 °C with fresh green shoots on deciduous trees, no clouds whatsoever, expansive open sky conveying the negative electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue-grey at the horizon — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.