Wind and solar together produce over 50 GW, pushing Germany to 12 GW net export and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 42%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
25.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
25.6 GW
Solar
61.5 GW
Total generation
+12.0 GW
Net export
-11.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
6.6°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
55.0% / 128.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 25.6 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling spring farmland, angled south and catching mid-morning light filtering through broken clouds. Wind onshore 19.8 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, spread across green hills with early April vegetation — bare deciduous trees just budding, fresh grass emerging. Wind offshore 5.4 GW appears on the far left horizon as a line of turbines rising from a distant grey sea visible through a valley gap. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest industrial plants with cylindrical storage silos and thin exhaust stacks emitting faint white vapour, nestled among trees in the middle-left. Brown coal 1.9 GW appears as a pair of large hyperbolic cooling towers in the far background left, with only thin wisps of steam — nearly idle. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack, barely active, minimal heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a single smaller cooling tower and brick smokestack further back, almost dormant, very faint plume. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a wooded valley on the far right edge. The sky is partly cloudy at 55% cover — patches of bright blue between cumulus clouds, with direct sunlight breaking through in dramatic shafts illuminating the solar panels. Temperature is a cool 6.6°C spring morning: breath-like mist lingers in low valleys, frost still on shaded grass. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — spacious, unhurried, luminous. Full daytime at 09:00, sun moderately high in the east-southeast casting long but brightening shadows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated greens, golden light, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell frame, every cooling tower hyperbolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.