Massive solar output of 44.5 GW under clear skies drives a net export of ~8.8 GW and a slightly negative price.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 80%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.5 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
+8.7 GW
Net export
-0.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.6°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 398.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
46
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.5 GW dominates the entire scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green hills and farmland, covering roughly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting brilliantly under a cloudless late-morning sun at 10:00, angled southward and casting short shadows on lush May grass. Biomass 4.2 GW appears in the mid-left as a cluster of modest wood-chip power plants with squat chimneys and thin wisps of pale exhaust. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers releasing gentle steam plumes into the blue sky. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack near the cooling towers. Hydro 1.5 GW is represented by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a green valley at the right edge. Wind onshore 0.7 GW and wind offshore 0.7 GW appear as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge and a faint line of offshore turbines on the horizon — all rotors completely still, blades frozen in the dead-calm air. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The sky is vast, perfectly clear, deep cerulean blue with intense direct sunlight casting crisp shadows, a calm and open atmosphere reflecting the negative electricity price. The landscape is late-spring central Germany: bright green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadows, temperature around 20°C conveyed by warm hazy light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich meeting industrial realism, with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.