Solar at 49.5 GW and 14.4 GW wind drive 16.4 GW net exports and near-zero prices at midday.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 67%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 0%
Brown coal 4%
94%
Renewable share
14.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
49.5 GW
Solar
73.3 GW
Total generation
+16.4 GW
Net export
-0.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.1°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
75.0% / 472.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
43
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 49.5 GW dominates the composition, filling roughly two-thirds of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland under bright midday light filtered through a hazy, partly overcast summer sky with layered cumulus at 75% cover. Wind onshore 10.5 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles scattered across gentle hills in the mid-ground, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 3.9 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines on the far horizon haze. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fired power stations with squat rectangular buildings and modest chimneys trailing thin white exhaust, tucked among trees at the painting's left edge. Brown coal 2.6 GW appears as two large hyperbolic cooling towers rising in the far left background, emitting soft white steam plumes against the cloud-streaked sky. Natural gas 1.5 GW is a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and low turbine hall, placed near the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse visible beside a tree-lined river that winds through the foreground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single distant smokestack, barely visible, nearly idle. The vegetation is lush high-summer green — mature wheat fields golden-ripe, deciduous trees in full dark canopy, meadow grasses tall. Temperature reads as oppressive summer heat: haze shimmers above the PV arrays, the air looks thick and warm. The sky is luminous but diffused, bright white-blue light breaking through cloud gaps, with soft shadows on the ground. The overall atmosphere is calm and expansive, reflecting near-zero electricity prices — no tension, no storm, just an immense quiet surplus of energy flooding outward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a distant industrial-pastoral horizon — but every technological element rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.