Solar at 46.1 GW drives 4.3 GW net exports under cloudless skies, collapsing the day-ahead price to 1 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 77%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
90%
Renewable share
1.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.1 GW
Solar
59.5 GW
Total generation
+4.3 GW
Net export
1.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 700.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 46.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly three-quarters of the canvas, their aluminium frames glinting sharply under an intense midday sun, angled south on neat ground-mount rows across golden-green late-May farmland. Brown coal 4.0 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting in nearly still air, beside a conveyor belt feeding lignite into a blocky power station. Biomass 3.9 GW sits just right of the coal complex as a wood-clad industrial facility with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard. Natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat recovery unit, placed in the left-centre middle ground. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with a low powerhouse nestled in a valley cut at the right edge. Wind onshore 1.1 GW shows as two or three widely spaced three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the calm air; wind offshore 0.7 GW is a faint row of turbines on a hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single older brick-stack power station partially hidden behind trees near the brown coal complex. The sky is entirely cloudless, a deep luminous cerulean blue with brilliant direct sunlight casting crisp, short shadows to the north — full 14:00 Central European summer daylight. The air feels warm at 24 °C; lush deciduous trees in full green leaf frame the foreground, wildflowers dot meadow edges, and a calm, serene atmosphere pervades — no storm, no tension, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue-grey distances, luminous Caspar-David-Friedrich-scale grandeur — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel junction box, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.