Solar at 43.4 GW overwhelms midday demand, pushing prices negative as thermal plants hold minimum output.
Back
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
9.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.4 GW
Solar
65.0 GW
Total generation
+7.6 GW
Net export
-1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 382.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
77
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 43.4 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling green spring farmland, angled toward a brilliant clear sun high in a perfectly cloudless azure sky; wind onshore 8.9 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and visible nacelles on a distant ridge in the centre-right, their blades turning lazily in light wind; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes beside a lignite power station with conveyor belts; biomass 4.3 GW sits left-centre as a compact wood-chip-fed generating plant with a moderate smokestack and timber storage yard; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a small modern combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked behind the biomass plant; hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller classical power station with twin brick chimneys releasing faint grey wisps, at the far left edge; hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small weir and run-of-river turbine house visible along a stream in the foreground valley; wind offshore 0.1 GW is absent from the scene. The lighting is full bright late-morning spring daylight at 10:00, with intense direct sunlight casting crisp shadows from turbine towers and panel frames, the air clear and luminous. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees with light foliage, wildflowers dotting meadow edges. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — expansive sky, no oppressive clouds, a sense of abundant ease. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible expressive brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective toward the distant coal towers, meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower curve — a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.