Solar leads at 30.5 GW with firm thermal backup as Germany exports 3.9 GW under partly cloudy skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 49%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 9%
76%
Renewable share
11.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
62.1 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
135.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.3°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
68.0% / 210.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
168
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.5 GW dominates the right half and centre of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-grey surfaces catching filtered light. Wind onshore 9.6 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers arrayed along ridgelines in the upper-right background, blades turning slowly. Wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of turbines on a hazy horizon line far left. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the overcast, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite. Hard coal 4.5 GW sits just right of the brown coal complex as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall rectangular chimney and thinner plume. Natural gas 5.2 GW appears centre-left as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single gleaming exhaust stack and heat-recovery unit, emitting a faint transparent shimmer. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a modest smokestack and stacked timber beside it. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and turbine house on a gentle river flowing through the valley floor. The sky is mid-morning daylight, 10:00 AM in August, sun fairly high but diffused through 68% stratocumulus cloud cover—patches of blue sky visible but the atmosphere is hazy and slightly oppressive, reflecting the elevated electricity price. Temperature is mild at 18°C; vegetation is full late-summer green with some early hints of drying grass. The overall atmosphere is weighty and warm despite the cloud, with a sense of latent energy pressing down. 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 earth tones, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, luminous cloud interiors, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.