Solar at 44.7 GW leads a 76% renewable mix, driving 16.4 GW of net exports on a clear summer morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 58%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 13%
76%
Renewable share
8.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.7 GW
Solar
77.2 GW
Total generation
+16.4 GW
Net export
85.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.4°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 371.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.7 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than half the canvas from center to right, their aluminium frames glinting under intense midmorning summer sunlight, angled south on open farmland. Brown coal 9.6 GW occupies the left portion as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, connected to a sprawling lignite power station with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Natural gas 5.1 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and modest heat-shimmer exhaust plumes, positioned left of center between the coal plant and the solar fields. Wind onshore 5.4 GW is rendered as a line of modern three-blade turbines on gentle green hills in the mid-background right, their rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Wind offshore 3.3 GW appears as a distant row of turbines on the far horizon where a sliver of the North Sea is visible. Hard coal 3.8 GW is depicted as a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular chimney stack and coal yard, tucked behind the brown coal complex. Biomass 3.8 GW shows as a modest wood-clad biomass CHP plant with a low steam vent, near the edge of a village. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small dam with spillway visible in a forested valley in the far background. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep saturated cerulean blue with full direct sunlight casting hard shadows; the atmosphere feels heavy and warm at 26°C with a faint golden haze near the horizon suggesting summer heat. Vegetation is lush midsummer green—wheat fields, deciduous trees in full canopy. The overall mood is bright but slightly oppressive, reflecting the 85 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every cooling tower rib, every PV panel cell pattern, dramatic compositional sweep from industrial left to renewable right, no text, no labels.