Solar at 44.5 GW overwhelms midday demand under clear skies, driving 11.5 GW net exports and a zero price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 76%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
93%
Renewable share
4.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.5 GW
Solar
58.8 GW
Total generation
+11.5 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 415.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.5 GW dominates the scene: an immense, sweeping central German valley blanketed with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching from the foreground to the middle distance, covering roughly three-quarters of the visible landscape, their blue-black surfaces glinting under a blazing midday sun in a perfectly cloudless cobalt sky. Brown coal 2.7 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, beside a lignite conveyor and excavation pit. Biomass 3.8 GW occupies a mid-left position as a timber-clad biomass plant with a short chimney emitting faint heat shimmer, surrounded by stacked woodchip piles. Wind onshore 3.4 GW is rendered as a small group of modern three-blade horizontal-axis turbines on a gentle ridge at the right, their rotors nearly motionless in the calm air, nacelles and lattice-free tubular towers clearly detailed. Wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a distant line of turbines on a hazy horizon where a river meets flat coastal plain. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact single CCGT unit with a slim exhaust stack and minimal emissions, tucked between the solar fields and the coal complex. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with a visible spillway on a modest stream in the right foreground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a barely visible small smokestack behind the gas plant. The atmosphere is calm, serene, and luminous — full brilliant summer daylight at 10:00 AM, temperature around 22 °C, lush green deciduous vegetation on hillsides, wildflowers in meadow edges, no wind ripple in grasses. The price at zero is reflected in an expansive, open, tranquil sky with no oppressive weight. Style: 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, golden atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower curve — a monumental masterwork of the industrial-pastoral landscape. No text, no labels.