Solar at 56.3 GW floods the grid under clear August skies, driving 16.2 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
90%
Renewable share
3.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
56.3 GW
Solar
71.8 GW
Total generation
+16.3 GW
Net export
2.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.2°C / 7 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 687.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
72
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 56.3 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than three-quarters of the composition, covering rolling summer fields and rooftops under a blazing midday sun, aluminium frames glinting in brilliant direct light. Brown coal 4.5 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the still air. Wind onshore 3.0 GW and wind offshore 0.8 GW are depicted as a modest row of three-blade turbines with lattice towers along a distant ridge, blades barely turning in the calm air. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a medium-sized wood-clad biomass plant with a low exhaust stack amid the solar fields. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack, lightly venting. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a river in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a single dark industrial stack barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is completely cloudless, a luminous cerulean blue washed with August haze near the horizon, the sun at a high summer angle casting short shadows. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive weight, just expansive stillness. Temperature is 30°C: the vegetation is lush but heat-stressed, golden-green summer grass, dry edges on oak and linden trees, shimmering heat haze over the panels. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth with aerial perspective fading the distant cooling towers into summer haze — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for each technology. No text, no labels.