Solar at 45.8 GW drives a 10 GW net export at midday, with lignite and coal near must-run minimums.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 71%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
45.8 GW
Solar
64.5 GW
Total generation
+10.1 GW
Net export
18.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
97.0% / 327.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
71
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 45.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly 70% of the composition from centre to right, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffused midday light. Wind onshore 5.8 GW appears as a cluster of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers scattered along a ridge in the mid-ground left, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.3 GW is glimpsed as a distant line of turbines on a hazy horizon. Brown coal 3.7 GW occupies the far left as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily into the overcast. Biomass 3.7 GW sits as a mid-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a single smokestack near the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack and minimal heat shimmer beside the biomass plant. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a smaller coal-fired station with a single square cooling tower, barely steaming, tucked behind the lignite complex. Hydro 1.5 GW is suggested by a small dam and reservoir nestled in a forested valley in the far background. The sky is 97% overcast with a thick but luminous blanket of high stratus cloud, bright white-grey, with the sun's disc faintly visible as a diffuse bright spot at the zenith — full midday daylight, no shadows, but the light is soft and even. Temperature is a mild 21.9 °C; vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall wheat fields, leafy deciduous trees in full canopy, wildflowers along field edges. The low electricity price is reflected in a calm, expansive, open atmosphere with no oppressive tones. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich colour palette of sage greens, wheat golds, steel blues, and cloud whites, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze softening distant objects, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, and cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.