Solar at 38 GW overwhelms midday demand, driving near-zero prices and substantial net exports from the German grid.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 65%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.0 GW
Solar
58.5 GW
Total generation
+15.8 GW
Net export
0.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100% / 368.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
64
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 38.0 GW dominates the scene as an immense foreground and middle-ground expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green spring fields, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition; wind onshore 7.0 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills to the right, their blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 2.9 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the hazy horizon over a sliver of grey sea at far right; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad biomass plant with a modest smokestack and woodchip storage; brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast sky; natural gas 1.9 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer; hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with foaming water visible at the left edge near a tree-lined riverbank; hard coal 0.5 GW is a single smaller stack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is entirely overcast with a uniform blanket of pale grey-white clouds at midday — full diffuse daylight, bright but without direct sun or visible shadows, the light soft and even. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees with young leaves, wildflowers dotting the meadows. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, just gentle luminous overcast. Temperature around 14°C gives a cool, crisp feel. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to misty industrial silhouettes, the entire landscape rendered as a grand panoramic masterwork balancing pastoral beauty with meticulous engineering accuracy of each energy installation. No text, no labels.