Wind and solar together deliver 58 GW under overcast skies, pushing 6.4 GW of net exports at low prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 34%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
27.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.6 GW
Solar
68.1 GW
Total generation
+6.4 GW
Net export
20.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.6°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 71.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade wind turbines with white tubular towers and detailed nacelles stretching across rolling green summer hills, blades visibly turning in moderate wind. Solar 30.6 GW fills the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled south, their glass surfaces reflecting the flat white overcast sky. Wind offshore 4.6 GW appears on the far horizon as a row of larger turbines standing in a pale grey sea glimpsed through a gap in the hills. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the cloud layer, adjacent to a conveyor belt feeding lignite. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single low stack with faint exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 1.6 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal visible emissions, tucked between the biomass plant and the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley at centre-left with water cascading over the spillway. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal towers, nearly idle. TIME AND LIGHT: early afternoon in July, full daylight but entirely overcast—a uniform bright white-grey cloud deck at 100% coverage blankets the sky, no blue visible, diffuse soft light with no harsh shadows, creating even illumination across the landscape. The atmosphere feels calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price. Summer vegetation is lush—deep green deciduous trees, tall grass, wildflowers in meadows, temperature around 21°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete texture. The composition sweeps panoramically from the industrial thermal cluster on the left through pastoral renewable landscape to the turbine-studded horizon on the right, a masterwork canvas of Germany's energy transition. No text, no labels.