Solar at 40.1 GW dominates a clear August morning, driving 7 GW net exports alongside persistent coal and gas baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 10%
81%
Renewable share
7.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.1 GW
Solar
65.6 GW
Total generation
+7.1 GW
Net export
102.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.7°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 374.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
138
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.1 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central-German farmland, covering roughly 60% of the composition from centre to right, their aluminium frames glinting under a blazing, cloudless summer sky at 10:00 AM with the sun high in the southeast casting short shadows. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of four massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift lazily in the nearly windless air. Hard coal 2.7 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single tall brick chimney and conveyor belts of dark fuel beside it, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 3.2 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a slender steel exhaust stack and a modest heat-recovery steam generator, situated between the coal plants. Wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on a distant ridge in the right background, their rotors barely turning in the 1.8 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon where haze meets a strip of the North Sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a domed silo and a short smokestack emitting faint grey exhaust, nestled among green deciduous trees in full August foliage. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with white water cascading over it in the middle distance along a river cutting through the landscape. The atmosphere is bright but slightly heavy and oppressive — a pale heat haze shimmers above the panels suggesting the elevated market price — with a washed, almost white-blue sky. Vegetation is lush green summer grass and mature linden and oak trees. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective — yet every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic curve is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.