Massive 51.5 GW solar output under clear skies drives 11.8 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
4.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.5 GW
Solar
68.7 GW
Total generation
+11.8 GW
Net export
-21.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 661.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 51.5 GW dominates three-quarters of the scene as a vast rolling landscape of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching from the foreground to the distant middle ground, their aluminium frames gleaming under intense direct midday sun with zero cloud cover. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin, modest steam plumes against the blue sky. Natural gas 2.5 GW sits left-of-centre as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks releasing faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.6 GW is a smaller facility beside it with a single short stack and a modest coal conveyor. Wind onshore 3.7 GW and wind offshore 0.8 GW together appear at the right edge as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on lattice towers, their rotors turning very slowly in the light breeze. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a domed silo and low chimney releasing pale smoke, positioned centre-right. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled beside a gentle river in the right foreground. The sky is perfectly clear, deep cerulean blue, springtime April light at 13:00 in central Germany — shadows short, light warm and brilliant. The landscape shows early spring greenery: fresh pale-green beech leaves, yellow rapeseed fields beginning to bloom, meadow grass, temperature around 13°C. The atmosphere feels calm, open, expansive — reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive clouds, no tension, just an overwhelming abundance of light flooding the land. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV panel busbar, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.