Solar at 46.7 GW overwhelms 49.9 GW demand, pushing 19 GW net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 68%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
11.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.7 GW
Solar
68.9 GW
Total generation
+19.1 GW
Net export
-40.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 244.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.7 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels covering more than two-thirds of the composition, stretching from the foreground to the mid-ground, their aluminium frames gleaming under diffused midday light. Wind onshore 9.9 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on gentle rolling hills in the right middle distance, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a thin line of turbines on a hazy horizon at far right. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of small wood-chip-fed power plants with modest stacks and thin grey exhaust, nestled among spring-green deciduous trees at left-centre. Brown coal 2.4 GW appears as two hyperbolic cooling towers at far left, their steam plumes thin and barely rising, partially idle. Natural gas 2.1 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible in a valley at centre-left. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single small stack nearly dormant, adjacent to the brown coal towers. The sky is fully overcast with a bright, luminous white-grey cloud layer at midday — no direct sun disc visible but strong diffuse light floods the entire landscape. Spring vegetation: fresh light-green grass, budding trees, wildflowers in meadows between panel arrays. Temperature 13°C gives a cool, crisp atmosphere with soft atmospheric haze over distant hills. The mood is calm, expansive, and serene — reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth — yet every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors on lattice and tubular towers, aluminium-framed PV modules in neat rows, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with realistic proportions, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.