Solar at 34.9 GW and wind at 15.8 GW drive 10 GW net export and a negative price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 55%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
15.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.9 GW
Solar
62.9 GW
Total generation
+10.0 GW
Net export
-4.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 414.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
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Solar 34.9 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across a gently rolling central German landscape, covering roughly the right half and centre of the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under diffuse afternoon light filtered through full overcast. Wind onshore 14.8 GW fills the mid-ground and left-centre as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, spanning a wide arc behind the solar fields. Wind offshore 1.0 GW appears as a thin line of smaller turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 4.1 GW is represented by a cluster of timber-clad biogas facilities with green-domed digesters and short exhaust stacks releasing thin white vapour, positioned in the left mid-ground. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically, alongside conveyor belts and a lignite stockpile, rendered with engineering precision. Natural gas 2.1 GW sits just right of the cooling towers as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and coal bunker, partially behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a river winding through the foreground. The sky is entirely overcast — a uniform blanket of white-grey stratus clouds — yet the scene is fully daylit at 4 PM with soft, shadowless illumination. Despite 100% cloud cover, the ambient brightness is high, consistent with strong diffuse radiation. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green fields, blossoming cherry and apple trees with white and pink petals, hedgerows in new leaf. Temperature 17°C conveyed by warm-toned greens and comfortable pastoral atmosphere. The negative price is evoked by an open, calm, almost serene quality to the sky — no oppressive weight, just gentle overcast abundance. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth, Romantic grandeur — but every turbine nacelle, every PV cell busbar, every cooling tower's parabolic curve rendered with meticulous technical accuracy. No text, no labels.