Solar at 41.8 GW overwhelms 47.4 GW demand, pushing prices negative and driving ~9.8 GW net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 73%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.8 GW
Solar
57.2 GW
Total generation
+9.7 GW
Net export
-2.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 429.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 41.8 GW dominates three-quarters of the panoramic scene as vast rolling fields of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching to the horizon across gentle central German hills, their aluminium frames glinting under bright midday diffused light filtering through a high, thin overcast sky. Wind onshore 3.0 GW appears as a modest cluster of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a ridge at far right, rotors barely turning in still air. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line. Biomass 4.0 GW occupies the mid-left as a timber-clad biomass plant with a modest stack trailing white steam beside a woodchip storage yard. Brown coal 2.4 GW rises at the left edge as two hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy steam plumes and a lignite conveyor belt. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single sleek exhaust stack, tucked between the biomass plant and cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and penstock visible in a forested valley in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single dark smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal plant. The sky is bright but milky-white, full 100% cloud cover yet luminous — high thin clouds allowing strong diffuse and some direct sunlight to illuminate the landscape in warm, even tones. Temperature 20°C: lush late-spring green foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadows between panel rows, fresh grass. The air feels calm — no movement in trees or flags, perfectly still atmosphere suggesting negative electricity prices and oversupply. Time is 1 PM: full overhead daylight, short shadows beneath panels. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective lending depth to the rolling terrain, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and industrial structure, the entire composition feeling like a monumental masterwork capturing the industrial-pastoral duality of a modern energy landscape. No text, no labels.