Solar at 42 GW drives 83% renewable share and 5.2 GW net export despite near-calm winds and high cloud.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 68%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
83%
Renewable share
4.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
42.1 GW
Solar
61.7 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
86.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 475.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 42.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition from the centre to the right horizon. Brown coal 6.2 GW appears as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers on the far left, their broad concrete forms releasing thick white-grey steam plumes that drift across the hazy sky. Wind onshore 3.7 GW is represented by a modest row of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers standing motionless on a distant ridgeline behind the solar fields. Biomass 3.6 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial biogas facility with cylindrical digesters and a low smokestack. Natural gas 2.2 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat-recovery unit situated between the coal towers and the solar fields. Hard coal 2.2 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single rectangular boiler house and chimney, placed near the brown coal cluster. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam structure visible in a valley at the far right edge. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is a barely visible cluster of turbines on the extreme horizon line. The sky is bright midsummer afternoon daylight — 14:00 in July — but heavily veiled by high layered cloud at 89% cover, with patches of hazy direct sun breaking through, casting diffused warm light and soft shadows across the landscape. The air shimmers with 29.7°C summer heat; vegetation is lush deep green but dry at the tips, hedgerows and field margins suggest late-July central Germany. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the 86.3 EUR/MWh price — a weighted, humid stillness with no breeze stirring the turbine blades. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated earth tones, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective with aerial haze softening distant elements, dramatic interplay of industrial infrastructure and pastoral countryside. Meticulous engineering accuracy on every technology: three-blade rotor geometry, panel racking detail, hyperbolic tower curvature, CCGT exhaust configuration. No text, no labels.