Solar at 47.6 GW overwhelms demand, pushing 10.3 GW net exports and a negative clearing price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 82%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.6 GW
Solar
57.7 GW
Total generation
+10.4 GW
Net export
-18.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.8°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
17.0% / 722.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 47.6 GW dominates the entire scene as a vast, sweeping plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under an intense midday sun; biomass 3.9 GW appears as a modest cluster of wood-chip-fed power stations with squat stacks and thin white exhaust in the mid-ground right; brown coal 1.9 GW is rendered as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint wisps of steam on the far left horizon; natural gas 1.5 GW sits as a compact single-stack CCGT unit beside them; wind onshore 1.1 GW shows a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the still air; hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a concrete weir and small penstock set into a green hillside at the far right edge; wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint line of turbines on a hazy sea sliver at the horizon. The sky is nearly cloudless — only thin, scattered cirrus wisps covering perhaps a sixth of the brilliant blue dome — and the sun is high and blazing, casting short shadows. The late-May vegetation is lush and intensely green: wildflower meadows, thick deciduous canopy in full leaf, and golden rapeseed fields along the panel rows, all shimmering in 28 °C heat-haze. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, conveying the tranquility of a negative-price afternoon — open, expansive, unhurried. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — think Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich, saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth receding to a pale blue horizon, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel junction box, and cooling tower fluting. No text, no labels.