Solar at 44.5 GW and wind at 19.6 GW drive 14.1 GW of net exports and a negative price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
19.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.5 GW
Solar
75.6 GW
Total generation
+14.1 GW
Net export
-1.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.2°C / 16 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
76.0% / 405.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
56
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.5 GW dominates the scene: vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretch across gentle rolling hills, covering more than half the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under diffused midday light. Wind onshore 17.1 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in a moderate breeze, scattered across green summer farmland. Wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint coastal line. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack and steam wisp, nestled among trees at the right edge. Brown coal 3.2 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising on the far left, proportionally small against the renewable expanse. Hydro 2.0 GW is a low concrete dam with white spillwater visible in a river valley in the middle-left. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single slim exhaust stack, placed behind the dam. Hard coal 1.1 GW is a single smaller stack with a narrow plume, adjacent to the brown coal towers. The sky is full midday brightness but veiled by a high, layered cloud deck at 76% coverage, with patches of direct sun breaking through and casting dappled light on the panels — 405 W/m² of direct radiation produces distinct but softened shadows. Temperature is a warm 24°C summer day: lush green deciduous trees in full canopy, wildflowers in meadow margins, ripening wheat fields between turbine bases. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price — open, airy, no oppression. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork in the clouds and foliage, atmospheric aerial perspective fading the cooling towers into blue-grey distance, meticulous engineering detail on turbine nacelles, PV panel grid patterns, and cooling tower concrete textures. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.