Solar at 41.2 GW overwhelms midday demand under clear skies, driving 8.1 GW of net exports with 91% renewables.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 75%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
4.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.2 GW
Solar
54.9 GW
Total generation
+8.1 GW
Net export
43.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.7°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 570.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.2 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering roughly three-quarters of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a blazing midday sun in a perfectly clear blue sky. Brown coal 2.6 GW appears at the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising lazily, attached to a lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers. Biomass 3.6 GW occupies a modest area left of centre as a wood-chip-fired power station with a squat industrial chimney and stacked timber stores. Natural gas 1.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer near centre-left. Hard coal 0.9 GW is a smaller conventional boiler house with a single square stack, tucked behind the gas plant. Wind onshore 3.2 GW appears as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge to the right, their rotors barely turning in the light 6.5 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 0.9 GW is suggested by two distant turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right edge. Hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a visible sluice in a creek in the foreground. The landscape is lush midsummer green with mature wheat fields turning golden, wildflowers, and leafy deciduous trees — temperature 24.7 °C, warm and serene. Full bright midday daylight with sharp shadows pointing short and northward. The atmosphere is calm, open, and airy — moderate price means a peaceful but not oppressive sky. 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, luminous atmospheric depth, visible impasto brushwork, meticulous engineering detail on every technology, dramatic sense of scale between the vast solar field and the small thermal plants. No text, no labels.