Massive solar output of 48.6 GW drives 9.9 GW net export and a deeply negative price of −413 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 82%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
1.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.6 GW
Solar
59.1 GW
Total generation
+9.9 GW
Net export
-413.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 417.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
46
gCO₂/kWh
Records
#2
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Solar 48.6 GW dominates the entire composition as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly four-fifths of the scene, their aluminium frames glinting under bright midday spring light filtered through a thin, luminous high overcast sky. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of medium-scale wood-chip power plants with modest stacks and small steam plumes in the middle distance at left. Brown coal 2.0 GW is rendered as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam columns rising behind the biomass plants. Natural gas 1.5 GW sits as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.1 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a gentle stream in the foreground left. Wind onshore 1.0 GW appears as two lone three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in negligible wind. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small conventional stack barely visible at the far horizon. The sky is fully overcast yet bright and pearlescent — a thin, high cloud layer that still transmits strong sunlight, casting diffuse but intense illumination with soft shadows. Spring vegetation: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, yellow rapeseed fields between rows of solar panels. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene — reflecting the deeply negative electricity price. Time is 14:00, full daylight, no dramatic shadows but strong ambient brightness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective receding to a hazy horizon — yet every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors on lattice towers, aluminium-framed PV modules in long ground-mounted rows, lignite hyperbolic cooling towers with realistic concrete texture and drifting steam, gas CCGT stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels.