Solar at 51.5 GW overwhelms 48.5 GW demand, driving 19.6 GW net exports and negative prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 76%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
51.5 GW
Solar
68.1 GW
Total generation
+19.6 GW
Net export
-12.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.0°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 720.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 51.5 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland and rooftops, covering more than three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under blazing midday sun. Wind onshore 5.6 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a gentle ridge in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by a few distant turbines visible on the hazy horizon line. Biomass 3.7 GW is represented by a modest wood-fired plant with a squat smokestack and small steam plume near a stand of trees at mid-left. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies a corner as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin, lazy steam plumes, partially idle, conveyor belts visible but quiet. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack emitting a barely visible heat shimmer. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller stack beside the brown coal plant, nearly dormant. Hydro 0.9 GW is a small run-of-river weir with modest white water in the foreground. The sky is almost entirely clear — 2 % cloud cover — with intense July sunshine at 14:00, the light high and white-gold, short shadows, 28 °C summer heat visible in shimmering air above the panels. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — wheat fields turning golden, deciduous trees in full canopy. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price: no oppressive clouds, no tension, an almost serene overabundance of energy. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.