Solar at 49.4 GW drives 81% renewables and 7.9 GW net export while coal and gas persist at low wind.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 72%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 9%
81%
Renewable share
0.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.4 GW
Solar
68.3 GW
Total generation
+7.9 GW
Net export
67.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.8°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
92.0% / 445.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
135
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 49.4 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling Central German farmland, covering roughly 72% of the composition from the centre to the right — thousands of aluminium-framed panels angled toward a high midday sun that breaks through dramatic gaps in a 92%-covered sky of towering cumulus clouds, shafts of golden light pouring through rifts. Brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the heavy clouds, beside open-pit lignite excavation terraces. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears as a dark gabled power station with twin chimneys and thin grey smoke just left of centre. Natural gas 3.1 GW is rendered as a compact modern CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a low heat-recovery unit, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 3.7 GW shows as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a rounded silo and short smokestack near the middle ground. Hydro 1.7 GW appears as a small weir and run-of-river turbine house beside a gentle stream in the lower-left foreground. Wind onshore 0.5 GW is a single distant three-blade turbine on a far hilltop, rotors nearly still. The sky is oppressive and heavy despite midday brightness — thick clouds with bruised grey undersides suggest a warm, humid 27°C summer day; lush green deciduous trees, ripe wheat fields, and wildflowers line the foreground. The atmosphere carries a faintly tense, warm weight reflecting the 67 EUR/MWh price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, careful engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower curve — reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism. No text, no labels.