Solar at 48.1 GW overwhelms 49.3 GW demand under clear skies, driving prices negative and net exports to 14.8 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 75%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
48.1 GW
Solar
64.1 GW
Total generation
+14.8 GW
Net export
-0.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.4°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
1.0% / 679.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 48.1 GW dominates roughly three-quarters of the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across golden-dry summer fields and gently rolling hills in the foreground and middle ground, each panel angled toward the blazing midday sun. Brown coal 3.7 GW appears at the far left as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the still air. Wind onshore 3.5 GW is rendered as a sparse cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Biomass 3.4 GW sits as a modest wood-clad industrial plant with a short smokestack amid trees at centre-left. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack near the brown coal towers. Hard coal 1.2 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with conveyor belts and a single rectangular cooling tower adjacent to the gas plant. Wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested as tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and reservoir nestled into a wooded valley in the right middle ground. The sky is nearly perfectly clear — only the faintest wisp of cirrus — with intense overhead summer sunlight at its 13:00 peak casting short, hard shadows. The air shimmers with 33°C heat; vegetation is lush but dry-edged, midsummer meadow grasses turning golden. The atmosphere is calm and luminous, reflecting the negative electricity price — expansive, open, almost weightless sky with pale blue deepening to cerulean at the zenith. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic sense of scale between tiny human-built structures and the vastness of the sunlit landscape. Every energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors on lattice towers, aluminium PV panel frames with visible cell grids, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with internal structural ribs, CCGT exhaust stacks with heat shimmer. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.