Massive solar output of 51.4 GW drives 10.5 GW net export and deeply negative prices on a nearly windless April noon.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 83%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.4 GW
Solar
62.2 GW
Total generation
+10.5 GW
Net export
-260.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.6°C / 5 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
94.0% / 505.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
Records
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Solar 51.4 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly 83% of the composition — thousands of aluminium-framed panels on ground-mount racks covering gentle hills from foreground to deep middle distance, their glass surfaces reflecting a hazy bright sky. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of small wood-chip power stations with modest stacks and thin white exhaust plumes at the right edge. Brown coal 1.8 GW is rendered as a single hyperbolic cooling tower with a lazy steam plume rising in the far left background. Natural gas 1.8 GW sits beside it as a compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack. Wind onshore 1.1 GW: two or three widely spaced three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.1 GW: a small dam spillway visible in a valley gap at the far right. Hard coal 0.6 GW: a single small stack with thin smoke near the brown coal tower. Midday lighting at 12:00 Berlin time: the sky is bright but heavily diffused through a high, thin, nearly complete overcast layer at 94% cloud cover — no sharp shadows, but strong ambient illumination with a milky white-silver sky. Temperature 11.6°C in late April: fresh spring green on meadows and hedgerows between the panel arrays, early leaf-out on deciduous trees, some wildflowers. The atmosphere feels open and eerily calm — no wind motion in grass or branches, still air. The deeply negative electricity price is evoked by a vast, luminous, almost surreal openness to the sky — an overabundance of light pressing down gently on a landscape that cannot absorb it all. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich colour palette emphasizing silvery greens, warm panel blues, and pale sky whites — visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective creating depth across kilometers, meticulous engineering detail on all infrastructure. No text, no labels.