Solar at 48 GW drives 13.6 GW net export and deeply negative prices on a warm May midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 81%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
3.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.0 GW
Solar
59.6 GW
Total generation
+13.6 GW
Net export
-37.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.6°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
55.0% / 553.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
38
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.0 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels covering rolling hillsides and farmland across the entire centre and right of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under strong midday sun; biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip power stations with short stacks and thin white exhaust plumes in the mid-ground left; wind onshore 2.6 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridge, blades turning slowly in light breeze; brown coal 1.6 GW occupies the far left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle steam plumes rising against the sky; natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside the coal plant as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer; hydro 1.1 GW is depicted as a small concrete dam with spillway in a forested valley at the far right edge; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the distant hazy horizon line. The sky is midday bright with partial cloud cover — patches of cumulus drifting across a warm blue sky, direct sunlight casting crisp shadows across the panel arrays. Late-May central German landscape: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses tall, wildflowers dotting field margins, temperature suggesting warm comfortable air. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and expansive — reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich colour palette, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, and meticulous engineering accuracy in every technology depicted. No text, no labels.