Solar (38.6 GW) and onshore wind (19.4 GW) drive 13 GW net export at near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 53%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.6 GW
Solar
73.0 GW
Total generation
+13.0 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.9°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
26.0% / 326.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
74
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.6 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground and middle-ground plain covered with row upon row of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, their blue-black surfaces glinting under a high, bright midday sun with only sparse cumulus clouds (26% cover) in a luminous summer sky. Wind onshore 19.4 GW fills the right half and middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on tubular steel towers, rotors spinning briskly in a moderate breeze, scattered across green rolling hills with full midsummer foliage. Wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a thin line of smaller turbines on the far horizon suggesting a distant North Sea coast. Brown coal 4.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes drifting right in the breeze, beside a blocky power station with conveyor belts and a lignite stockpile. Natural gas 1.9 GW sits as a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and a faint heat shimmer, nestled just left of centre behind the solar field. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded dome digester and a short smokestack, surrounded by stacked timber and crop silage, positioned in the left-centre middle ground. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small dam with a modest spillway visible in a valley fold at the far left. Hard coal 1.2 GW is a single smaller plant with a rectangular chimney, barely visible behind the cooling towers. The atmosphere is calm, open, and luminous — no oppressive haze — reflecting a near-zero electricity price. Temperature of 20 °C shows in lush, deep-green deciduous trees, wildflower meadows, and warm-toned summer light. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial modernity — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to a hazy blue-green horizon, warm golden light on foreground textures, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's reinforced concrete shell. No text, no labels.