Solar at 41.1 GW drives 7.5 GW net exports and a slightly negative price on a hot, cloudless August afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 79%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
90%
Renewable share
0.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.1 GW
Solar
52.0 GW
Total generation
+7.5 GW
Net export
-0.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
26.5°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
7.0% / 544.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
75
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.1 GW dominates the scene as vast fields and rooftop arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly four-fifths of the composition, covering rolling hills and village rooftops under blazing afternoon sun. Brown coal 3.6 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily into the blue sky. Biomass 3.5 GW sits just right of the coal as a modest wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a squat exhaust stack and timber storage yards. Natural gas 1.4 GW is rendered as a small single-stack CCGT unit tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.1 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir with low spillway visible along a river in the middle distance. Wind onshore 0.6 GW is a pair of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning in the still air. The sky is almost entirely clear with only 7% wispy cirrus, the atmosphere calm and serene with a low-price tranquility. Full bright afternoon daylight at 16:00 in summer, hot haze shimmering over the panels, lush green deciduous trees and golden wheat fields suggesting 26°C warmth. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with warm golden tones in the foreground fading to hazy blue-green hills on the horizon. Meticulous engineering detail on every technology: nacelle housings and lattice towers on the turbines, individual PV cell grids on the solar panels, reinforced concrete texture on cooling towers. No text, no labels.