Solar at 45.5 GW drives 89.6% renewable share and a slight net export at negative prices on a cloudy spring midday.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 67%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
9.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.5 GW
Solar
67.8 GW
Total generation
+4.4 GW
Net export
-1.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.6°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 368.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
73
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.5 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels covering gently rolling farmland across the entire right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames catching diffuse midday light. Wind onshore 8.9 GW appears as a long procession of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching along a ridge in the upper-left middle ground, rotors turning slowly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is a faint cluster of turbines barely visible on the far horizon. Biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power plant with a modest smokestack and timber yard in the left middle ground. Brown coal 3.4 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belts of dark lignite. Natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a thin heat shimmer beside the coal facility. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller conventional plant with a single rectangular stack, tucked behind the gas plant. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small river dam with white spillway water in the lower-left foreground. The sky is fully overcast at 100% cloud cover — a uniform pale grey-white ceiling — yet luminous with diffuse midday brightness at 11:00, light falling evenly without shadows. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green leaves on birch and linden trees, wildflowers in meadow edges, temperature around 14°C suggesting light jackets on any figures. The atmosphere feels calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppression, no drama, just serene oversupply. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into the cloudy distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell row, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.