Solar at 47.5 GW drives 16.2 GW net export and near-zero pricing on a hot August afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 74%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 5%
89%
Renewable share
5.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
47.5 GW
Solar
64.7 GW
Total generation
+16.2 GW
Net export
4.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.2°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 524.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 47.5 GW dominates the composition, filling roughly three-quarters of the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling fields of dry, heat-yellowed summer grass under a bright but fully overcast white sky, the diffuse light still intense and hot. Brown coal 3.1 GW appears in the left background as a cluster of large hyperbolic cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes rising into the pale sky. Wind onshore 4.7 GW is rendered as a scattered line of modern three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, rotors turning slowly in light breeze. Biomass 3.5 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with enclosed digesters and a modest stack. Natural gas 1.9 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 1.9 GW sits beside the brown coal as a smaller conventional plant with a square chimney. Wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by tiny turbine silhouettes on a hazy far horizon. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam and spillway visible in a valley fold at right. The atmosphere is heavy, hazy summer heat at 33°C—shimmering air above the panels, parched vegetation, a white-hot overcast sky pressing down. The mood is calm and subdued, reflecting the rock-bottom electricity price. Full midday daylight at 14:00, no shadows but intense ambient brightness. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth receding through heat haze, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every aluminium panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete curve. No text, no labels.