Solar (30.2 GW) and onshore wind (19.0 GW) drive 9.6 GW net export at near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 32%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 50%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
20.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.2 GW
Solar
59.8 GW
Total generation
+9.6 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.4°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 258.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
42
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.2 GW dominates the foreground and right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling green summer meadows; onshore wind 19.0 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning visibly in moderate wind; offshore wind 1.9 GW appears as a thin line of turbines on a hazy horizon above a distant river; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a single low chimney emitting pale steam at the left-centre; brown coal 2.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thin wisps of white steam; natural gas 1.5 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine unit with a single tall exhaust stack and faint heat shimmer; hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small dam and spillway nestled in a wooded valley at the far left edge; hard coal 0.2 GW is a barely visible single dark smokestack behind the gas plant, nearly idle. The sky is a luminous overcast — 93% cloud cover in thick stratiform layers, yet bright diffuse summer daylight at 11:00 pushes through, casting soft shadowless illumination across the landscape. Temperature 21°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in the grass, warm humid atmosphere. The mood is calm and expansive — near-zero electricity prices reflected in an open, serene, almost weightless quality to the air. No dramatic contrasts. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective receding into hazy distance — yet every engineering detail rendered with technical precision: turbine nacelles, blade pitch mechanisms, panel bus-bars, cooling tower parabolic profiles, CCGT exhaust diffusers. No text, no labels, no people.