Solar at 38.1 GW overwhelms 40.1 GW demand, pushing 13.5 GW net exports and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.1 GW
Solar
53.6 GW
Total generation
+13.5 GW
Net export
-1.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 397.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.1 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition — thousands of aluminium-framed modules on low ground-mount racks, their glass surfaces reflecting a diffuse milky-white sky. Wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a ridge at the upper left, rotors barely turning in the light 6 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon far behind the panels. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a wood-chip power station with a short stack and a pile of timber beside it at the mid-left. Brown coal 2.3 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam in the far background, right of centre. Natural gas 1.7 GW shows as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack, tucked behind the solar field at the right. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a small dam and penstock on a wooded stream in the lower-right corner. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible older stack nearly lost in atmospheric haze at the far edge. The time is 14:00 on a warm May afternoon: full daylight but the sky is entirely overcast with a luminous white-grey cloud layer — bright and glaring, no blue patches, yet strong diffuse light illuminates everything evenly. Temperature 20.5 °C — lush green spring vegetation, deciduous trees fully leafed, wildflowers in meadow edges. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and spacious, matching the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, just endless gentle light. 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 greens and silvery greys, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with haze softening distant cooling towers — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.