Solar and wind dominate at 94% renewables; 12 GW net export drives prices negative on a cloudy summer afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
16.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.7 GW
Solar
59.4 GW
Total generation
+12.0 GW
Net export
-4.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.2°C / 22 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 228.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
41
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.7 GW dominates the scene: an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, occupying well over half the canvas, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but overcast sky. Wind onshore 13.6 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in a moderate breeze, scattered across green summer meadows and wheat fields. Wind offshore 2.5 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines on the far horizon. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a modest rectangular stack and thin white exhaust plume, set among trees at the left edge. Brown coal 1.9 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin but visible steam plumes, positioned in the left background, industrial and squat. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river station with a weir visible along a river cutting through the foreground. Natural gas 1.3 GW shows a compact CCGT unit with a single exhaust stack, barely steaming, tucked near the brown coal plant. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single small stack, almost idle, beside the gas unit. The sky is 97% overcast — a luminous, flat blanket of pale silver-grey stratus, intensely bright from full summer daylight at 15:00, with diffuse light flooding the landscape evenly and eliminating harsh shadows. Temperature is warm at 24°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow margins, ripening crops. The atmosphere feels calm and open — gentle, peaceful tones reflecting the negative electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich, layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology element. No text, no labels.