Solar at 31.5 GW under overcast skies drives 89% renewable share and deeply negative prices amid minimal wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 74%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.5 GW
Solar
42.8 GW
Total generation
+2.6 GW
Net export
-37.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 528.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.5 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the canvas from the centre to the right; brown coal 2.5 GW appears at the far left as two towering hyperbolic cooling towers trailing faint steam plumes; biomass 4.2 GW occupies the left-centre as a cluster of wood-chip storage domes and a mid-height stack with thin exhaust; natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single polished exhaust stack near the left; wind onshore 1.3 GW shows a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in near-calm air; hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small reservoir and concrete weir nestled in the middle distance; hard coal 0.5 GW appears as a single modest smokestack at the far-left margin. Time is 4 PM in late April: full diffuse daylight, entirely overcast sky with a thick luminous white-grey cloud ceiling, yet an oddly bright ambient glow floods every surface—the sun's disc faintly visible as a hot white smear behind thin cloud. Spring vegetation: fresh green deciduous trees in new leaf, yellow rapeseed fields between rows of PV panels, wildflowers at panel edges. Air is still—no motion blur, flags hang limp, grass upright. Atmosphere is calm, serene, almost oppressively quiet under the blanket sky, conveying the eerie economics of negative electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic yet contemplative mood. Each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice or tubular towers, aluminium-framed PV modules with visible cell grids, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with rising condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.