Solar at 56.9 GW drives 88.7% renewable share and 17.4 GW net export under cloudless 30 °C skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 78%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
3.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
56.9 GW
Solar
73.1 GW
Total generation
+17.4 GW
Net export
25.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
30.0°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 588.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
81
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 56.9 GW dominates the scene, filling roughly three-quarters of the composition with vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their blue-black surfaces glinting under a fierce, cloudless midday sun. Brown coal 4.4 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin white steam plumes against the blue sky. Biomass 3.6 GW occupies the left-centre as a wood-chip-fed power station with a squat industrial stack and timber storage yards. Wind onshore 2.6 GW is rendered as a small group of modern three-blade horizontal-axis turbines on lattice and tubular towers standing nearly motionless in the still air on a distant ridge. Natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and gleaming metal enclosure, positioned centre-right. Hard coal 1.5 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and a single chimney releasing a faint grey wisp. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir with white water visible along a tree-lined stream in the mid-ground. Wind offshore 0.5 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon where the land fades to haze. The sky is vast, clear, and intensely blue with no clouds whatsoever, the light harsh and vertical at solar noon. The temperature of 30 °C is conveyed through heat shimmer rising from the panel arrays, dry golden stubble in harvested wheat fields between the installations, and mature deciduous trees in full dark-green summer foliage with wilting edges. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower contour, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.