Solar at 45.1 GW and wind at 20.7 GW drive 18.9 GW net exports and near-zero prices at midday.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
92%
Renewable share
20.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.1 GW
Solar
76.9 GW
Total generation
+18.9 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.8°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
38.0% / 631.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense field of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under strong direct sunlight with partially cloudy summer sky (38% cloud cover); wind onshore 16.6 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers and nacelles arrayed along gentle green hills in the middle distance, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze; wind offshore 4.1 GW is visible far in the background as a cluster of offshore turbines rising from a silver strip of sea at the horizon; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired power station with a rectangular stack emitting thin white exhaust, nestled among trees at mid-left; brown coal 2.6 GW appears as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with faint steam plumes on the far left, diminutive compared to the solar expanse; natural gas 2.4 GW is shown as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and low turbine hall beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway releasing white water in the lower-left corner; hard coal 0.9 GW is a single smaller stack with a wisp of grey smoke, barely visible beside the brown coal plant. The time is noon in summer: the sun is high and intense, casting short shadows, warm light flooding the landscape; lush green deciduous trees in full August foliage, wildflowers in meadows between solar rows; the sky is mostly blue with scattered fair-weather cumulus clouds allowing strong direct radiation; the atmosphere feels calm and expansive, evoking low electricity prices; a gentle haze softens the distant horizon. Style: 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, luminous atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy for every energy technology. The vast solar field should feel sublime in scale, dwarfing the thermal plants. No text, no labels.