Solar at 37.3 GW and wind at 12.6 GW drive 11.0 GW net export, pushing prices to zero.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 20%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 63%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
12.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.3 GW
Solar
59.2 GW
Total generation
+11.0 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.1°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
83.0% / 537.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.3 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition from centre to right, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under broken cloud light. Wind onshore 11.7 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along ridgelines in the middle distance, blades turning at moderate speed in the 17.8 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by a handful of distant turbines on the far horizon. Brown coal 2.6 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin, lazy steam plumes against the clouds. Natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer beside the cooling towers. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of modest industrial buildings with short stacks and wood-chip storage yards near the coal plant. Hydro 0.9 GW and hard coal 0.5 GW are present as small background structures — a weir with flowing water and a single coal bunker with conveyor belt. The sky is midday bright at noon but largely overcast with thick broken cumulus at 83% cover, patches of intense blue sky visible between cloud masses, direct sunlight streaming through gaps and casting dappled shadows across the solar fields. Summer vegetation is lush — green wheat fields, mature deciduous trees in full canopy, wildflowers along field edges. Temperature reads as warm — heat shimmer above asphalt roads, no jackets on the tiny figures of maintenance workers. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, no tension. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into blue-grey distance, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature and concrete ribs. No text, no labels.