Solar at 45 GW and 13.5 GW wind push renewables above 90%, driving negative midday prices via net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 63%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
13.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.0 GW
Solar
70.9 GW
Total generation
+6.3 GW
Net export
-7.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1.0% / 399.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
68
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 45.0 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting intensely under a near-cloudless brilliant spring sky. Wind onshore 8.2 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills in the middle distance, rotors turning moderately. Wind offshore 5.3 GW is suggested by a line of larger turbines visible on a far coastal horizon at the right edge. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a low exhaust stack emitting faint vapor, nestled among the panels. Brown coal 3.6 GW occupies the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising, adjacent to a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Natural gas 2.5 GW sits beside the coal plant as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and slim vapor trail. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam visible along a river cutting through the foreground meadow. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller stack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The time is 1:00 PM in April — full, high midday sun casting short shadows, direct radiation strong at 399 W/m², sky nearly perfectly clear with only the faintest haze. Temperature is a mild 15°C: fresh green spring grass, blossoming fruit trees, early wildflowers in the meadow. A gentle breeze bends the grass slightly. The atmosphere is calm, open, and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — no tension, no oppression, just luminous abundance. 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 confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, golden-green palette — but rendered with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation: correct turbine nacelle shapes, proper PV cell grid patterns, accurate cooling tower geometry. The scene feels like a masterwork Romantic painting of a modern industrial-pastoral landscape. No text, no labels.