Record solar at 50.3 GW under clear skies drives 19.5 GW net export and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
11.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.3 GW
Solar
71.3 GW
Total generation
+19.5 GW
Net export
-176.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.4°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 664.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
37
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#1
Clean Hour
#2
Helle Brise
Image prompt
Solar 50.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast plain of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under brilliant midday sun. Wind onshore 9.5 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on gentle green hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines visible on a hazy northern horizon above a sliver of sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest wood-clad combined heat and power plants with short stacks releasing thin white exhaust, tucked among trees at left-centre. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies a small section at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with faint wisps of steam, beside a lignite conveyor and excavator pit. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible exhaust. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the painting's left edge. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single dark smokestack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous cerulean blue grading to pale gold near the horizon, with the sun high and slightly south — consistent with 1 PM in late April central Germany. Spring vegetation: fresh bright-green deciduous foliage, rapeseed fields in vivid yellow, wildflowers in meadows between panel arrays. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting deeply negative electricity prices — expansive, serene, almost weightless air. 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, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminous glazing technique — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy for every technology depicted. No text, no labels.