Solar at 47.8 GW under clear skies drives 12 GW net export and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 72%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.8 GW
Solar
66.0 GW
Total generation
+12.1 GW
Net export
-55.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
5% / 711.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
67
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 47.8 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, their aluminium frames glinting under intense midday sun, covering roughly three-quarters of the visible landscape. Brown coal 3.3 GW appears at the left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily. Wind onshore 6.6 GW is represented by a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on gentle green hills at the right, their rotors turning slowly in a moderate breeze. Biomass 4.0 GW sits as a compact wood-chip power station with a modest stack and stored timber behind the solar field. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a single CCGT unit with a slim exhaust stack near the coal towers. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single squat chimney beside the lignite complex. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small weir and run-of-river station along a river winding through the valley floor. The sky is almost entirely clear—only the faintest wisps of cirrus at the edges—with a brilliant high sun flooding every surface in warm spring light. The atmosphere is luminous and calm, conveying a sense of surplus and ease. Fresh green deciduous foliage on scattered trees indicates mid-spring at 15 °C. The air is clean and transparent, with long shadows cast by the turbines and cooling towers. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth, golden-hour warmth even at midday to convey the overwhelming solar radiance—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.