Solar at 42.5 GW under clear skies drives 93% renewables, pushing 8 GW net exports and prices negative.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 71%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
93%
Renewable share
7.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.5 GW
Solar
60.0 GW
Total generation
+8.0 GW
Net export
-2.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 370.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
46
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.5 GW dominates the entire composition as a vast sea of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green hills from the centre to the far right and deep into the background, their aluminium frames glinting under brilliant late-morning sunshine; wind onshore 6.0 GW appears as a long ridge of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers gently turning in a moderate breeze across the mid-left; wind offshore 1.8 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line above a river or lake; biomass 4.4 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack and conveyor belt in the left foreground; brown coal 2.0 GW sits in the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of white steam, visually small relative to the solar expanse; natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single clean exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hard coal 0.4 GW is a barely visible dark industrial silhouette behind the gas plant; hydro 1.2 GW is a small weir and powerhouse nestled along a gentle river in the lower foreground. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous spring blue with full direct sunlight casting sharp shadows, temperature around 16°C indicated by fresh green deciduous foliage and wildflowers — dandelions, buttercups — in meadow grasses. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene, reflecting negative electricity prices. Light is consistent with 10:00 AM in central Germany in early May: sun moderately high in the southeast, warm golden-white quality. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue distances — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature and concrete texture. No text, no labels.