Record-level solar at 45 GW under clear skies drives 12 GW net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 76%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.0 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+12.2 GW
Net export
-176.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 665.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
45
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Clean Hour
#3
Helle Brise
Image prompt
Solar 45.0 GW dominates the entire scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under intense direct sunlight. Wind onshore 4.6 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle hills in the mid-distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest biogas plant with cylindrical digesters and a small smokestack near a farmstead at the left edge. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies a narrow band at the far left horizon as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in still air. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack, tucked behind the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small weir and powerhouse along a river cutting through the foreground meadow. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a barely visible distant industrial silhouette with a single stack. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous pale spring blue with the sun high and slightly south, casting short sharp shadows. The landscape shows mid-spring green — fresh beech and birch leaves, wildflowers in meadow grass, temperature around 14°C suggesting cool crispness but bright warmth. The atmosphere is calm, open, and expansive, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price — no tension, no weight, just overwhelming abundance of light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork in the sky and foliage, atmospheric depth with hazy blue-grey horizons, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower curvature. No text, no labels.