Solar at 43 GW drives 6.2 GW net exports and deeply negative prices on a nearly windless April midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 82%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
0.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.0 GW
Solar
52.7 GW
Total generation
+6.3 GW
Net export
-260.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
97% / 529.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#3
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Solar 43.0 GW dominates the entire scene as a vast plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching from the foreground to the distant horizon, covering roughly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames catching diffused midday light. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of small wood-chip-burning power stations with modest stacks and thin white exhaust plumes at the mid-left. Brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing gentle steam columns. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer. Hydro 1.1 GW is rendered as a small concrete dam with a reservoir visible in a valley at the far right. Wind onshore 0.5 GW is a single three-blade turbine on a lattice tower standing motionless on a ridge. Hard coal 0.5 GW is one smaller square cooling tower barely visible behind the brown coal plant. The sky is midday bright but entirely blanketed by a thin, luminous high overcast — 97% cloud cover — with the sun's disc faintly visible as a white-hot smear behind the cloud layer, casting soft shadowless light everywhere. The atmosphere feels eerily calm and open, reflecting the deeply negative price: no oppressive weight, just an overwhelming stillness and abundance. Spring vegetation is fresh but muted — pale green grass and early leaf buds on scattered birch and oak trees, temperature around 11°C so no summer lushness. Air is absolutely still, no motion in any branch or blade. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distance. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor and nacelle detail on the turbine, individual PV cell grids visible on near panels, reinforced concrete texture on cooling towers, riveted steel on the CCGT stack. The painting evokes Caspar David Friedrich's scale and solitude but filled with industrial-energy infrastructure. No text, no labels.