Solar at 50.6 GW drives a 15.3 GW net export under cloudless, windless August heat with near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 4%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 76%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
3.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
50.6 GW
Solar
66.4 GW
Total generation
+15.4 GW
Net export
4.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
31.0°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 576.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
78
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 50.6 GW dominates the entire composition as vast crystalline silicon PV arrays stretching across rolling fields and rooftops, covering roughly three-quarters of the scene under blazing midday sun; brown coal 3.4 GW appears in the far left background as two large hyperbolic cooling towers with thin lazy steam plumes rising in the still air; biomass 3.6 GW sits as a modest wood-chip power station with a short stack and fuel yard in the left-middle ground; wind onshore 2.9 GW shows as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors completely still; natural gas 1.9 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single silver exhaust stack near the centre-left; hard coal 1.9 GW appears as a smaller conventional plant with bunker and conveyor beside it; hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam with spillway tucked in a valley at far right; wind offshore 0.9 GW is barely visible as tiny turbine silhouettes on the hazy horizon line. The sky is absolutely cloudless, a deep, vibrant cerulean blue, the sun at its zenith casting short sharp shadows. The landscape is parched late-summer central German countryside at 31°C—golden-brown wheat stubble fields, dry grass, shimmering heat haze above the panels, a few dark-green oaks with full summer canopy showing slight drought stress at leaf edges. The atmosphere is calm, open, and expansive, reflecting the very low electricity price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous sky treatment, yet with meticulous technical accuracy on every energy installation—aluminium-framed PV modules with visible cell grids, proper lattice towers and nacelle housings on the wind turbines, reinforced-concrete hyperbolic cooling tower shells. The painting feels like a monumental industrial landscape masterwork. No text, no labels.