Record solar at 48 GW drives 19 GW net exports and deeply negative prices on a cloudless spring afternoon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 69%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.0 GW
Solar
69.8 GW
Total generation
+19.3 GW
Net export
-190.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 686.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
38
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
Clean Hour
#3
Helle Brise
Image prompt
Solar 48.0 GW dominates the entire scene as an immense sea of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a blazing midday sun in a perfectly clear cobalt-blue sky. Wind onshore 10.3 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning gently in a light breeze across green spring meadows with young foliage and wildflowers at 16°C. Wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon, slightly hazy. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a single stack emitting thin white vapour, set among birch trees at right. Brown coal 1.9 GW shows a pair of small hyperbolic cooling towers at the far left edge with faint wisps of steam, nearly idle. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a slender exhaust stack barely trailing heat shimmer, tucked behind the cooling towers. Hydro 1.0 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway glinting in a river valley below. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single dark smokestack, almost dormant, emitting the faintest trace of exhaust. The atmosphere is luminous and serene — full brilliant midday daylight at 14:00, open calm sky reflecting the deeply negative electricity price, spring-green vegetation, long shadows absent at near-zenith sun angle. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.