Solar at 32.5 GW drives a 90% renewable hour, creating 3.1 GW net export at near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
9.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
32.5 GW
Solar
51.6 GW
Total generation
+3.1 GW
Net export
7.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.7°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
95.0% / 292.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
70
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 32.5 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition from the centre to the right; wind onshore 8.2 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers scattered across gentle hills behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light wind; wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of slim turbines on a hazy horizon line at far right; brown coal 2.8 GW occupies the left foreground as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin grey-white steam plumes; natural gas 1.6 GW sits beside them as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer; hard coal 0.8 GW is a smaller smokestack facility partially screened by linden trees in full midsummer leaf; biomass 4.0 GW appears as several mid-sized industrial biogas units with rounded digesters and short stacks set among green fields; hydro 1.0 GW is a small run-of-river weir with white water visible on a stream in the mid-ground. The sky is bright diffuse daylight at 10:00 on a July morning — high overcast at 95% cloud cover, a luminous pearl-white ceiling with no direct sun disc visible but strong ambient light flooding the landscape, consistent with 292 W/m² reaching the panels. Temperature 21.7 °C: lush green deciduous trees, wildflowers, ripe wheat fields between infrastructure. The atmosphere is calm, open, and serene — reflecting the very low electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to soft blue-grey in the distance — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower reinforcement ring is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.