Solar at 54.5 GW drives 89% renewables and negative prices at German midday under clear skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
54.5 GW
Solar
72.2 GW
Total generation
+7.2 GW
Net export
-18.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.0°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 509.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
77
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 54.5 GW dominates the scene, filling roughly three-quarters of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, glinting fiercely under a cloudless, brilliant midday sun with direct radiation casting sharp shadows. Brown coal 3.9 GW appears in the far left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the still air. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground timber-clad biomass plant with a tall exhaust stack and wood-chip storage silos. Natural gas 2.6 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a sleek single exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer beside the biomass plant. Wind onshore 1.9 GW and wind offshore 2.2 GW appear as a modest row of three-blade turbines on a low ridge to the right, their rotors barely turning in the light 6.9 km/h breeze. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a single smaller coal plant with a rectangular cooling tower, partially obscured behind the lignite complex. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a river threading through the middle distance. The sky is completely clear, deep cerulean blue, luminous and calm — reflecting the negative electricity price with a serene, open, unoppressive atmosphere. Spring vegetation is emerging: fresh pale-green leaves on deciduous trees, early wildflowers in field margins, temperature around 13°C giving a crisp clarity to the air. 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 colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding to a hazy horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and smokestack. The scene feels monumental and contemplative, a masterwork industrial landscape. No text, no labels.