Solar at 41.8 GW drives massive oversupply and a −414 EUR/MWh price with near-zero wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 81%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
0.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.8 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
+6.7 GW
Net export
-413.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 504.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Records
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Solar 41.8 GW dominates the scene as an immense sprawling plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under diffuse but bright midday light filtering through a high, thin, luminous white overcast sky. Brown coal 2.0 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising lazily. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits just beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer. Hydro 1.1 GW is represented as a small concrete run-of-river weir with water spilling over a low dam in the middle distance. Biomass 4.1 GW occupies the right background as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip silos and short chimneys trailing pale smoke. Wind onshore 0.5 GW is a single lonely three-blade turbine on a lattice tower at the far horizon, its rotor barely turning in still air. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single distant smokestack with a thin dark plume. The sky is uniformly bright white-grey, a high thin overcast transmitting strong diffuse light — midday April illumination, no direct sun disk visible but everything well-lit. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green grass, budding deciduous trees. The air feels calm, almost oppressively still. The atmosphere conveys an eerie glut of energy — an overwhelmed calm. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous skies recalling Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.