Solar at 47.6 GW drives 12.6 GW net export and negative prices on an overcast spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 68%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
10.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.6 GW
Solar
69.8 GW
Total generation
+12.6 GW
Net export
-30.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 295.8 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
60
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 47.6 GW dominates the scene: an enormous sprawling plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across roughly two-thirds of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a pale, diffuse midday light under a heavy overcast sky. Wind onshore 8.7 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed across gentle green spring hills in the mid-ground, blades turning steadily in moderate wind. Wind offshore 2.2 GW is visible as a smaller cluster of larger turbines on the distant hazy horizon over a sliver of grey sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded timber-chip silo and a single modest smokestack emitting thin white vapour, positioned at the left edge. Brown coal 2.8 GW occupies a compact area at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy steam plumes rising into the overcast. Natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a small CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic housing beside the lignite towers. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a smaller traditional brick-and-steel power station with a single square chimney and thin grey exhaust, adjacent to the gas plant. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small concrete weir and penstock on a stream winding through the foreground meadow. The sky is 92% overcast with thick stratiform clouds in layered greys and silvers, yet bright enough that the sun's disc is faintly discernible as a white smear — full midday daylight at 14:00, no shadows, soft ambient illumination. The atmosphere feels calm, almost serene — open and spacious, reflecting the deeply negative price. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees, wildflowers in the meadow. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.