Solar at 36 GW and wind at 16 GW drive 90.5% renewables, pushing prices slightly negative on a cloudless spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 57%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
90%
Renewable share
16.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.0 GW
Solar
63.6 GW
Total generation
+10.7 GW
Net export
-1.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.3°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 576.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.0 GW dominates the entire centre and right foreground as a vast, sprawling plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching toward the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting sharply under brilliant direct sunlight, occupying roughly 57% of the scene's visual area. Wind onshore 12.6 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and streamlined nacelles arrayed across gentle green hills in the mid-ground left, their blades turning moderately in a 15 km/h breeze, occupying about 20% of the scene. Wind offshore 3.4 GW is visible as a distant row of larger turbines on the far-left horizon above a faint blue strip of sea haze, about 5% of the scene. Brown coal 2.8 GW is rendered as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising from behind a low ridge on the far left, about 4% of the scene. Natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat-recovery steam generator visible in the left mid-ground, about 3% of the scene. Biomass 4.1 GW is a cluster of industrial buildings with wood-chip storage silos and a short smokestack near the left-centre, about 6% of the scene. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam with a thin cascade of water in the far mid-ground valley, about 2% of the scene. Hard coal 1.2 GW shows as a single coal plant with a rectangular boiler house and conveyor belt partially visible behind the biomass facility, about 2% of the scene. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous cerulean blue deepening toward the zenith, with the late-afternoon sun (16:00 Berlin time) positioned in the western sky casting long warm golden light across the landscape. The atmosphere is calm and open, suggesting low electricity prices — no haze, no oppressive clouds, just serene depth. Spring foliage is fresh bright green on deciduous trees, with wildflowers dotting meadow edges around the solar arrays. Temperature of 17°C is reflected in light, pleasant atmospheric conditions. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric perspective with hazy blue distance — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV panel grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.