Solar at 35.4 GW drives 91% renewable share and deeply negative prices despite overcast skies and negligible wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 76%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.4 GW
Solar
46.4 GW
Total generation
-1.6 GW
Net import
-37.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 543.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
59
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.4 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition; brown coal 2.0 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising; natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack; wind onshore 1.4 GW shows as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack near centre-left; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small concrete dam and spillway nestled in a green valley in the background; wind offshore 0.5 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on the far horizon. The sky is high overcast at 96% cloud cover but luminous — a diffuse bright white-grey canopy with occasional thin breaks where intense direct sunlight streams through in dramatic shafts, casting warm highlights across the panels. Full afternoon daylight at 4 PM in late April, spring-green meadows and budding deciduous trees at 15.3°C, wildflowers dotting field edges. The air is calm and still, no wind motion in grass or foliage. The atmosphere feels open, spacious, and serene — reflecting deeply negative electricity prices. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to distant blue hills. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, aluminium-framed PV modules in neat rows, lignite hyperbolic cooling tower geometry, CCGT exhaust details. The scene has the grandeur and contemplative stillness of a Caspar David Friedrich composition crossed with industrial realism. No text, no labels.