Solar at 43.9 GW and wind at 12.5 GW drive 19.9 GW net export and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 66%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
12.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.9 GW
Solar
66.9 GW
Total generation
+19.9 GW
Net export
-77.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.5°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 371.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
51
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
Records
#3
Export Champion
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Solar 43.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under diffused but bright midday light filtering through a high, pale-grey overcast sky. Wind onshore 11.3 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along ridgelines in the middle distance, blades turning at moderate speed in a 16 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is glimpsed as a small cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-scale wood-chip power plants with modest steam exhaust near a forest edge at left. Brown coal 2.4 GW shows two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising in the far left background. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low heat shimmer beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock visible along a river cutting through the valley. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single smaller stack among the thermal cluster, barely steaming. The sky is uniformly overcast yet luminous — bright white-grey cloud deck transmitting strong diffuse light, casting soft shadowless illumination typical of a 14:00 April afternoon. Spring greenery — fresh pale-green beech leaves, rapeseed beginning to yellow — covers gentle hills. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive, reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.