Solar at 40.2 GW drives 92% renewables, pushing net exports to 7.8 GW and prices to 6.2 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 75%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.2 GW
Solar
53.2 GW
Total generation
+7.8 GW
Net export
6.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
28.0°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
27.0% / 459.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
57
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.2 GW dominates the entire scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting in brilliant afternoon sun. Brown coal 2.5 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the sky. Wind onshore 3.8 GW is represented by a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, their rotors barely turning in the light breeze. Biomass 3.5 GW sits in the mid-left as a compact wood-clad power plant with a modest exhaust stack and a pile of wood chips beside it. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a single sleek CCGT unit with a clean exhaust stack near the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the far background. The lighting is full bright afternoon daylight at 4 PM in July, sun high but beginning its westward descent, casting warm golden light across the landscape. The sky is mostly clear with a few scattered cumulus clouds (27% cover), deep summer blue. The temperature is 28°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, ripe wheat fields between the solar arrays, heat shimmer above the dark panels. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting very low electricity prices — no oppressive haze, just crystalline summer clarity. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to blue-green hills on the horizon — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV panel junction box, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.