Solar at 48.4 GW under clear skies drives 93.9% renewables, negative prices, and 12.4 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 82%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
1.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.4 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+12.4 GW
Net export
-5.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.0°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 527.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
41
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 48.4 GW dominates the entire scene as vast, sweeping fields of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green hills and farmland, their aluminium frames glinting under intense midday sun, occupying roughly four-fifths of the composition. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of modest wood-chip power plants with low stacks and small steam wisps in the mid-ground left. Brown coal 1.8 GW is rendered as a single hyperbolic cooling tower with a thin steam plume rising from behind a gentle ridge at the far left. Hydro 1.5 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading at the lower left. Natural gas 1.5 GW shows a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer, tucked among trees at the far right mid-ground. Wind onshore 0.8 GW and wind offshore 0.8 GW: two or three tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles stand motionless on a distant ridge, rotors frozen in the dead calm. Hard coal 0.3 GW is barely suggested as a single small smokestack far on the horizon. The sky is completely clear, deep cerulean blue with no clouds whatsoever, brilliant direct sunlight casting sharp short shadows indicating 11:00 AM. Late May in central Germany: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers dotting meadow edges, warm 22°C atmosphere with slight heat haze over the panels. The air feels calm, serene, unhurried — reflecting the negative electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with luminous aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every technology element. The scene reads as a masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels, no people.