Solar at 39.8 GW and wind at 16.0 GW drive 93% renewable share, pushing prices negative amid 16.6 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
16.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.8 GW
Solar
65.3 GW
Total generation
+16.6 GW
Net export
-2.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
85.0% / 455.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
48
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the canvas from the centre to the right horizon, their aluminium frames catching diffused midday light under a high overcast sky. Wind onshore 13.3 GW appears as dense ranks of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines across the middle distance, rotors turning steadily in moderate breeze, with wind offshore 2.7 GW suggested by a thin line of turbines on the far hazy horizon. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the left background as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers releasing thin wisps of steam into the humid summer air. Biomass 3.7 GW is depicted as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a low exhaust stack and timber storage yard in the left middle ground. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT facility behind the biomass plant, its exhaust barely visible. Hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a tree-lined river in the foreground. Hard coal 0.4 GW is a single distant smokestack with a faint trail. The sky is 85% covered in high stratocumulus, bright and luminous white-grey, with patches of blue and strong diffused sunlight casting soft shadows—full midday summer daylight at 14:00. Lush green summer vegetation, wildflowers along field margins, warm 24°C atmosphere with slight haze. The atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting the negative electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminosity—with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: turbine nacelles and lattice towers, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust details. No text, no labels.