Solar at 52.6 GW drives 89% renewable share and 9.9 GW net exports on a warm July afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 78%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
2.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
52.6 GW
Solar
67.5 GW
Total generation
+9.9 GW
Net export
41.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
40.0% / 541.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
77
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 52.6 GW dominates the scene, filling the entire right two-thirds and central foreground with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon across rolling central German farmland, their blue-black surfaces glinting under bright afternoon sun. Brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the summer sky. Biomass 3.5 GW appears as a medium-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage yard and a single smokestack with faint exhaust, positioned left of centre. Wind onshore 2.8 GW is represented by a scattered line of five three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors turning only sluggishly in the light breeze. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal heat shimmer, nestled behind the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.7 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular cooling tower and conveyor belt visible beside the lignite facility. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with white water cascading in the near foreground, a river winding through the composition. Wind offshore 0.1 GW is absent from the scene. The sky is 14:00 full summer daylight, bright and warm, with scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly 40% of a vivid blue sky, direct sunlight casting crisp shadows across the panels and fields. Temperature is 22°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers along field margins, golden wheat ripening. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the moderate electricity price — no oppression or heaviness. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with hazy blue distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and industrial stack. The composition balances sublime natural beauty with the monumental industrial presence, rendered as a masterwork panoramic landscape painting. No text, no labels.