Solar at 35.4 GW drives 69% of generation under clear August skies, with 4.2 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 69%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
5.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.4 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
+4.2 GW
Net export
45.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 594.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.4 GW dominates the scene as vast crystalline silicon photovoltaic arrays stretching across rolling green summer fields and village rooftops, covering roughly two-thirds of the composition under brilliant afternoon sunlight; wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on gentle hills at the right, their blades turning slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 3.7 GW shows as a modest wood-chip power plant with a single short stack and small steam plume nestled among trees; brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin grey-white steam plumes; natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.2 GW is rendered as a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse along a stream in the middle distance; hard coal 0.7 GW is a single smaller stack barely visible behind the lignite plant. The time is 4 PM on an August afternoon: full, high summer daylight with zero cloud cover, deep blue sky, strong direct sunlight casting short shadows toward the east. Temperature is 24°C: lush green deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadows, warm golden haze on the horizon. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a moderate electricity price. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, aluminium-framed PV modules with visible cell grids, reinforced concrete cooling tower shells, CCGT heat recovery units. No text, no labels.