Solar at 44.8 GW drives 78% of generation under cloudless skies, pushing 7.9 GW of net exports and suppressing prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 78%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 7%
89%
Renewable share
1.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.8 GW
Solar
57.4 GW
Total generation
+7.9 GW
Net export
16.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.9°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 427.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.8 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green summer fields, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a brilliant cloudless midmorning sun high in a pale blue sky. Brown coal 3.8 GW appears in the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily in the still air. Biomass 3.8 GW sits beside them as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a low smokestack and neat log piles. Natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single polished exhaust stack and small heat-recovery unit, tucked into the middle-left distance. Wind onshore 1.1 GW appears as two or three solitary three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the calm air. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and spillway visible along a river in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single small coal plant with a square chimney barely visible on the far horizon. The landscape is lush midsummer green with deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers along field edges, temperature around 22°C conveyed by warm hazy light. The sky is completely clear, deep cerulean at the zenith fading to warmer tones near the horizon. The atmosphere is calm, open, and tranquil, reflecting the low electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective with depth and luminosity — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV panel busbar, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.