Solar at 40.1 GW and wind at 13.7 GW drive 11.8 GW net exports and a slightly negative price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 60%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
88%
Renewable share
13.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.1 GW
Solar
67.0 GW
Total generation
+11.8 GW
Net export
-1.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 438.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
78
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.1 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than half the canvas, covering gentle rolling farmland under a bright but fully overcast white-grey sky at 3 PM — diffuse daylight illuminates everything evenly without sharp shadows. Wind onshore 9.3 GW appears as long rows of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on green spring hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 4.4 GW is visible far in the background as a cluster of offshore turbines on a hazy horizon line above a sliver of grey sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a tall stack and a domed woodchip storage building at mid-left. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left as a pair of large hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the overcast, beside a conveyor and lignite bunker. Natural gas 3.2 GW sits beside the coal plant as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine block with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway nestled in a wooded valley at far right. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller cooling tower and smokestack, partially obscured behind the gas plant. The April landscape shows fresh bright-green deciduous foliage, plowed fields, and scattered wildflowers. The atmosphere is calm and open — a placid, low-tension sky reflecting the negative electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and turbine blade — evoking Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism. No text, no labels.