Solar at 38.5 GW and wind at 15.8 GW drive 11.0 GW net export and negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
15.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.5 GW
Solar
65.0 GW
Total generation
+11.0 GW
Net export
-7.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
7.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
70.0% / 102.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground and middle-ground expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly 60% of the canvas. Wind onshore 13.4 GW fills the right third and receding distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a faint cluster of turbines on the far horizon beyond a river. Biomass 4.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a small steam exhaust. Brown coal 2.1 GW occupies a small area at the left edge as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, lazy steam plumes. Natural gas 1.7 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a modest coal plant with a square chimney barely trailing smoke. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small weir and powerhouse along a river in the mid-ground. The lighting is full late-April mid-morning daylight at 10:00 in central Germany: the sun is moderately high in the east-southeast but partially veiled by 70% cloud cover — a bright but diffused silvery-white sky with broken stratocumulus clouds allowing patches of direct sunlight to dapple the panel arrays. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive haze, a sense of spacious quiet abundance. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green grass, budding deciduous trees, some rapeseed fields beginning to yellow. Temperature near 8°C gives a cool, crisp quality to the air with subtle morning mist in low hollows. 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 confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic yet precise rendering. Every energy technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and blade pitch mechanisms, PV module grid lines, cooling tower parabolic curvature with condensation plumes, CCGT exhaust geometry. The composition feels like a masterwork panoramic industrial landscape, monumental yet serene. No text, no labels, no human figures.