Massive solar output of 38.6 GW under clear skies drives 11.6 GW net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
6.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.6 GW
Solar
54.5 GW
Total generation
+11.7 GW
Net export
-133.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.5°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 662.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
49
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.6 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering more than two-thirds of the composition, angled south, reflecting brilliant midday light. Wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on rolling green hills in the right middle distance, blades turning gently in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 1.0 GW is a small group of turbines barely visible on the far-right horizon above a hazy river plain. Biomass 4.1 GW sits as a modest wood-clad biomass power station with a short stack and pale steam wisp in the left middle ground. Brown coal 1.9 GW appears as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin steam plumes in the far left background. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley gap at centre-left distance. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller stack with minimal smoke tucked behind the gas plant. The sky is completely cloudless, a radiant deep blue, the April sun high and blazing at 3 PM from the southwest casting short sharp shadows. The landscape is central German rolling farmland with fresh spring-green grass, budding deciduous trees, and patches of yellow rapeseed in bloom. Temperature is mild, 16.5°C, with a soft pastoral atmosphere. The deeply negative electricity price is evoked by an overwhelming openness and calm luminosity—the sky vast and serene, the air crystalline. 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 expressive brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to blue haze at the horizon, yet rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete ribbing. No text, no labels.