Solar at 51 GW drives 92% renewable share and 8.9 GW net export, collapsing day-ahead prices to near zero.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 76%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.0 GW
Solar
67.4 GW
Total generation
+9.0 GW
Net export
0.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
66.0% / 483.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 51.0 GW dominates the entire foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting in midday light; wind offshore 3.4 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles rising from a distant sea visible on the right horizon; wind onshore 2.1 GW shown as a smaller cluster of lattice-towered turbines on gentle green hills at centre-right; biomass 3.9 GW rendered as a mid-scale industrial plant with a timber-pile yard and a single square stack emitting pale steam, placed at centre-left; brown coal 3.3 GW depicted as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising at the far left background; natural gas 1.9 GW shown as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.6 GW suggested by a low concrete dam and spillway in a river valley at the far right middle ground; hard coal 0.2 GW is a single dark smokestack barely visible behind the lignite plant, nearly idle. Time is 11:00 Berlin — full late-morning daylight, sun high in the southeast casting short shadows across the PV arrays. Sky is partly cloudy at 66% cover, with large cumulus formations drifting across blue gaps, allowing strong beams of direct sunlight to strike the panels while shading portions of the distant landscape. Temperature 20.5°C, late May: lush bright-green deciduous foliage, wildflowers in meadow edges, fresh spring vegetation. Wind is gentle — turbine blades rotate slowly, grasses barely swaying. Atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive haze, expansive luminous sky. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective softening distant cooling towers into a pale haze. Engineering details rendered meticulously: three-blade rotor geometry, PV panel grid patterns and racking structures, hyperbolic cooling tower curvature, CCGT heat recovery units. The composition conveys the overwhelming scale of solar power against the small remnants of thermal generation. No text, no labels, no people.