Massive solar output of 44.2 GW under clear skies drives 9.6 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 76%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
1.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.2 GW
Solar
57.9 GW
Total generation
+9.5 GW
Net export
3.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 366.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
88
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.2 GW dominates the entire scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly three-quarters of the composition, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under brilliant direct sunlight. Brown coal 4.5 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the still air. Biomass 3.9 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a modest industrial facility with wood-chip conveyors and a single smokestack emitting thin pale exhaust. Natural gas 1.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack in the middle distance behind the solar fields. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and turbine house beside a quiet stream in the mid-ground. Wind onshore 1.0 GW is depicted as two or three distant three-blade turbines on a gentle hill, their rotors nearly still in the calm air. Hard coal 0.9 GW shows as a single smaller conventional power station with a square chimney, partially hidden behind trees. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous pale summer blue with intense direct sunshine casting sharp shadows. The air is calm and hazy with summer warmth at 17.9°C; vegetation is lush deep green — mature wheat fields between the solar arrays, full-leafed deciduous trees, wildflower meadows. The atmosphere is tranquil and expansive, with an open, relaxed quality reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Time is mid-morning with the sun high in the east, casting warm but not harsh light across the landscape. Rendered as a 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 creating depth from foreground solar arrays to distant cooling towers, meticulous engineering detail on every technology. No text, no labels.