Peak solar at 48.8 GW drives 12 GW net exports and negative prices on a clear spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 73%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
7.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.8 GW
Solar
66.9 GW
Total generation
+12.1 GW
Net export
-28.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
21% / 698.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.8 GW dominates the entire centre and right side of the canvas as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting under brilliant afternoon sunlight; brown coal 2.7 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into still air; wind onshore 6.7 GW is represented by a cluster of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines in the middle distance, rotors turning gently in light wind; natural gas 1.7 GW shows as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal flue output tucked behind the cooling towers; hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller block-style power station with a squat chimney beside the lignite plant; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-clad biomass CHP facility with a modest smokestack amid green spring fields; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a valley on the far right; wind offshore 0.3 GW is faintly visible as two distant turbines on the hazy horizon line. The sky is 79% clear with only scattered high cirrus clouds, strong direct sun casting crisp shadows at a 2 PM angle from the southwest, spring-green deciduous trees in fresh leaf, wildflowers dotting meadows at 15.8°C, the atmosphere calm and luminous with a serene open quality reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding through haze layers—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module busbar, cooling tower shell profile, and CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.