Solar at 44 GW drives a 7 GW net export while brown coal holds 8.4 GW baseload under clear skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 66%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 13%
79%
Renewable share
3.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.0 GW
Solar
66.5 GW
Total generation
+7.0 GW
Net export
85.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.8°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 378.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
155
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.0 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under an intense, cloudless midsummer sky at 10 AM with high bright sunlight. Brown coal 8.4 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising vertically in the still air, connected to a lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as mid-ground wood-chip-fed combined heat and power plants with modest stacks and stored timber piles. Wind onshore 2.2 GW is rendered as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the near-calm air. Hard coal 2.9 GW shows as a single large coal plant with tall chimneys and a coal yard to the right of the cooling towers. Natural gas 2.6 GW is depicted as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and slim heat recovery unit, placed in the mid-left. Wind offshore 1.2 GW is suggested by faint turbines on the far horizon line. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a stone powerhouse nestled along a stream in the foreground. The atmosphere is bright but carries a slightly heavy, hazy quality suggesting elevated market tension at 85.3 EUR/MWh — warm golden tones with a faintly oppressive shimmer above the horizon. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, wildflowers dotting field margins, temperature around 22°C. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower shell. No text, no labels.