Solar at 40.7 GW drives 12.7 GW net export and negative prices on a high-summer midday.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 66%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
12.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.7 GW
Solar
62.1 GW
Total generation
+12.7 GW
Net export
-8.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.9°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
95.0% / 466.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
39
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.7 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a bright but heavily overcast sky with occasional dramatic breaks in the cloud layer letting shafts of direct sunlight through. Wind onshore 10.9 GW appears as dozens of modern three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across gentle hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a faint line of turbines on a hazy horizon. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with wood-chip storage domes and a single stack emitting thin white exhaust, positioned at the left-centre. Brown coal 1.9 GW occupies the far left background as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam, clearly idle-feeling, diminished against the solar expanse. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single sleek exhaust stack, barely puffing, tucked beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river dam with water flowing through a wooded valley in the near-left foreground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant smokestack, almost vanishing into the cloud base. The sky is 95% cloud cover — thick layered stratus in grey-white — but pierced by brilliant golden-white gaps allowing beams of sunlight to illuminate the solar fields dramatically. Full midday daylight at 13:00, bright and diffuse. Summer vegetation is lush deep green, wheat fields ripening gold between the panel rows. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppressive weight, open and airy. Temperature 21.9°C gives a pleasant warmth. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with luminous cloud studies, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's concrete texture. A masterwork German Romantic industrial landscape. No text, no labels.