Massive solar output of 49.7 GW drives 11.6 GW net exports and negative prices on a clear spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 74%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.7 GW
Solar
67.2 GW
Total generation
+11.5 GW
Net export
-29.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
31% / 603.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 49.7 GW dominates the scene as an immense, sweeping expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels covering rolling central German farmland across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting sharply under bright afternoon sun. Brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as a pair of towering hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin wisps of white steam. Wind onshore 3.1 GW and offshore 1.9 GW are represented by a modest cluster of three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a low ridge in the left-centre middle distance, their blades barely turning in the light breeze. Natural gas 2.5 GW sits as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a low heat-recovery building just behind the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a small dark-bricked power station with a single squat smokestack releasing a faint grey ribbon. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with cylindrical silos and a modest flue in the centre-left. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small weir and turbine house beside a gentle river flowing through the foreground. The sky is mostly clear with scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly 30% of a bright azure dome; the April sun is high and warm at 2 PM, casting crisp shadows. Spring vegetation is fresh and green — young leaves on birch and beech trees, bright rapeseed fields beginning to bloom yellow. The air feels calm, almost still. The atmosphere is light, open, and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct turbine nacelles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.