Massive solar output of 51.9 GW drives 8.0 GW net exports and negative prices on a clear spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 74%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
5.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.9 GW
Solar
70.0 GW
Total generation
+8.0 GW
Net export
-29.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.3°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
23.0% / 601.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
73
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 51.9 GW dominates the scene as an immense, sweeping plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the canvas, angled south, gleaming under brilliant afternoon sunlight. Brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting upward. Wind onshore 2.9 GW is rendered as a modest row of three-blade turbines on gentle green hills in the mid-left background, blades turning very slowly in the light 6.9 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by a thin line of turbines on a distant grey-blue horizon at the far right edge. Natural gas 2.5 GW occupies a compact area centre-left as a modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a wood-clad biogas facility with a rounded green digester dome and a small chimney, set among the panel rows. Hydro 1.2 GW is a modest concrete weir with white cascading water cutting through the lower right foreground. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a small power station with a single rectangular stack near the brown coal towers. The sky is 77% clear, deep spring blue with a few high cumulus clouds, the sun high and slightly west of zenith casting short shadows — full 14:00 April daylight. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and luminous, reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. The landscape is lush early-spring green — fresh buds on trees, bright grass at 16°C. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding to hazy blue hills — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid-line, every cooling tower flute is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.