Near-record solar at 49.7 GW drives 10.2 GW net exports and negative prices under cloudless skies.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 82%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
1.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.7 GW
Solar
60.4 GW
Total generation
+10.2 GW
Net export
-12.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.8°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 647.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
42
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 49.7 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green fields covering roughly four-fifths of the composition, each aluminium-framed panel gleaming intensely under a blazing midday sun in a perfectly clear blue sky. Biomass 4.0 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of modest timber-clad power stations with low stacks emitting pale vapour amid stacked woodchip piles. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies a narrow strip at the far right as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of steam, dwarfed by the solar fields. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT unit with a single sleek exhaust stack producing a faint heat shimmer. Hydro 1.3 GW is rendered as a small concrete weir and run-of-river turbine house nestled along a gentle stream in the mid-ground. Wind onshore 1.0 GW and wind offshore 0.6 GW appear as a handful of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers along a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single small stack just visible beside the brown coal towers. The late-May vegetation is lush—bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, warm 25°C atmosphere. The sky is serene, vast, and calm, reflecting the negative electricity price—no tension, no oppression, pure luminous openness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—Caspar David Friedrich's atmospheric depth married to meticulous industrial-engineering accuracy—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, golden warm light flooding every surface. No text, no labels.