Solar at 48.8 GW drives a 4.5 GW net export and zero-price clearing on a warm, overcast May midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
90%
Renewable share
2.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.8 GW
Solar
62.8 GW
Total generation
+4.5 GW
Net export
0.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.2°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 533.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.8 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the composition, angled south on neat ground-mount racks, filling the central foreground and middle distance. Brown coal 4.1 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air. Biomass 4.1 GW sits left-of-centre as a group of modest wood-clad CHP plants with short chimneys and neat woodchip storage yards. Wind onshore 1.2 GW shows as a handful of three-blade horizontal-axis turbines on lattice and tubular towers on a gentle ridge in the right background, their rotors barely turning in the calm conditions. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by distant turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint coastal line. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, set behind the solar field on the right-centre. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a modest run-of-river weir with a concrete spillway visible in a river that crosses the lower-right foreground. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single small conventional boiler house with a striped chimney, partially obscured behind the brown coal complex. The sky is a uniform bright white-grey overcast, luminous and glowing with diffused midday sunlight at noon — no direct sun disk visible but the light is strong and even, casting very soft shadows. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and unoppressive, reflecting the zero electricity price. Lush late-May green vegetation — deciduous trees in full leaf, grassy meadows — surrounds the installations, consistent with 21 °C warmth. The air is still; no flags flutter, no dust rises. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich, layered colour with visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading distant elements to blue-grey, golden-green foreground foliage rendered with Pre-Raphaelite botanical precision — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic profile is engineered with meticulous technical accuracy. No text, no labels.