Solar at 40 GW overwhelms demand under clear 34°C skies, driving 10 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 70%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
6.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.0 GW
Solar
57.2 GW
Total generation
+10.0 GW
Net export
1.6 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
34.4°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 715.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.0 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland in the centre and right of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting fiercely under a blazing midday sun; brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the sky; wind onshore 5.3 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a distant ridge behind the solar field, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.3 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right; biomass 3.5 GW is depicted as a modest wood-clad industrial facility with a single short stack and thin exhaust near the cooling towers; natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack beside the biomass unit; hydro 1.4 GW is shown as a small concrete weir and powerhouse on a stream in the foreground; hard coal 0.6 GW is a small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers. The time is 3 PM on a scorching summer day — the light is intense, high, and slightly white-hot, casting short shadows; the sky is entirely cloudless, a washed-out pale blue near the horizon deepening to cobalt overhead, conveying oppressive heat; the landscape is dry late-June German farmland with golden-green fields and dusty paths; vegetation is lush but heat-stressed, with some wilting leaves on linden trees lining a country road. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the rock-bottom electricity price — no tension, no drama, just the vast quiet hum of solar abundance. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape art — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel row, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.