Solar at 45.8 GW under overcast skies drives 10.9 GW net export and negative prices across Germany.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 69%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
9.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.8 GW
Solar
66.3 GW
Total generation
+10.8 GW
Net export
-26.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
9.3°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94% / 116.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering nearly seventy percent of the composition's middle ground and foreground, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but diffuse overcast sky. Wind onshore 7.1 GW appears as roughly a dozen three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles scattered along a gentle ridge to the right. Wind offshore 2.1 GW is suggested in the far background as a row of smaller turbines on a hazy horizon line. Biomass 4.1 GW sits as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber yard and a single squat smokestack emitting thin white exhaust, positioned left of centre. Brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with modest steam plumes rising into the grey sky. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapour, placed near the brown coal plant. Hard coal 1.2 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a brick chimney and coal conveyor, nestled beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.2 GW is represented by a small weir and turbine house along a stream in the lower-left corner. The sky is a luminous, uniform overcast at 94% cloud cover — bright pearl-white and silver-grey, no direct sun visible but the landscape is well-lit with soft, shadowless midday daylight consistent with 13:00 in late April. The atmosphere feels calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — open, almost serene, no oppressive weight. Vegetation is early spring: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, green grass beginning to thicken, patches of yellow rapeseed flowers in distant fields. Temperature around 9°C gives a cool crispness. Light breeze barely stirs the grass. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — rich layered colour, visible textured brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, warm earth tones in the foreground yielding to cool blue-grey distance. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine blade profiles, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, conveyor belt structures. The painting conveys the quiet, immense power of a renewable-dominated grid on an ordinary spring afternoon. No text, no labels.