Solar at 30.8 GW and wind at 21.9 GW drive 93% renewable share and 16.1 GW net export at negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 30%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 50%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
22.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.8 GW
Solar
62.2 GW
Total generation
+16.1 GW
Net export
-28.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.9°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 320.5 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
47
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous field of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre-right of the composition, their blue-black surfaces catching diffuse afternoon daylight filtered through a fully overcast sky, with occasional bright breaks in the clouds casting sharp patches of direct sunlight across the panels. Wind onshore 18.5 GW fills the centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles, blades rotating in moderate 16 km/h wind, receding into atmospheric haze across rolling green spring fields. Wind offshore 3.4 GW appears in the distant left background as a cluster of offshore turbines rising from a grey North Sea horizon. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a compact wood-chip-fueled power station with a corrugated metal silo and small steam stack near the left foreground. Brown coal 2.1 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, wispy steam plumes—clearly throttled back—positioned in the far left middle ground. Natural gas 1.8 GW is a single compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass plant. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a small, nearly dormant coal plant with a single stack and barely visible emissions at the far left edge. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small river with a low concrete weir and run-of-river turbine house in the lower-left foreground. The sky is thick layered overcast in grey and silver, but with luminous breaks where direct radiation pierces through, casting dramatic shafts of light onto the PV fields. Vegetation is fresh early-spring green—new leaves on scattered birch and beech trees, yellow-green meadows. The air feels calm, mild at 14°C, with soft atmospheric perspective. The negative price is evoked by an open, expansive, almost serene atmosphere despite the industrial elements. Time is 16:00—full but softened daylight, sun westering behind clouds in the centre-left sky. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, golden-green spring palette, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower profile. No text, no labels.