Strong onshore wind and diffuse solar flood the grid with 38.5 GW net exports, pushing prices to −85 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 42%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
40.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.9 GW
Solar
86.1 GW
Total generation
+38.5 GW
Net export
-85.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 29 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 97.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
39
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Clean Hour
#2
Export Champion
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Wind onshore 34.3 GW dominates the entire right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on tall lattice-and-tubular towers stretching deep into the distance across rolling green April farmland, rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind, blades slightly motion-blurred. Solar 35.9 GW fills the centre-left foreground and middle ground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low-angle ground mounts, their glass surfaces reflecting a flat, diffuse white-grey sky—no direct sunbeams, only ambient overcast light. Wind offshore 5.7 GW appears as a line of larger turbines visible on a distant grey North Sea horizon at the far left. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired power station with a rectangular stack emitting thin white steam, set among the wind turbines in the mid-ground. Brown coal 2.5 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers far in the left background, dwarfed by the renewables but still emitting lazy plumes of condensation. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers, barely visible. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a tiny traditional brick smokestack in the distant haze, almost ghostlike. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small river weir with a low concrete run-of-river powerhouse in the immediate left foreground. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover—a uniform blanket of pale grey-white stratus—but it is full midday so the scene is brightly and evenly lit with no shadows, soft ambient daylight everywhere. The atmosphere feels open, calm, almost eerily weightless, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price: a sense of excess, of energy with nowhere to go. Temperature is a mild 15.6 °C; fresh green spring grass, early wildflowers, budding deciduous trees. Strong wind bends the grass and ruffles puddles. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's vastness merged with Adolph Menzel's industrial precision—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective deepening into hazy distance. Every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.