Solar at 36.8 GW and wind at 18.8 GW drive 88.8% renewable generation, creating 13.2 GW of net exports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 25%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 54%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
18.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.8 GW
Solar
68.1 GW
Total generation
+13.2 GW
Net export
69.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.4°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
84.0% / 477.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 36.8 GW dominates the composition, filling more than half the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, their blue-grey surfaces catching diffuse light through high overcast. Wind onshore 17.1 GW occupies roughly a quarter of the scene as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers marching along ridgelines into the atmospheric distance, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind. Brown coal 4.1 GW appears as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers at the left background, each emitting thick white steam plumes that merge with the cloud layer. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome, conveyor belts, and a modest exhaust stack trailing pale vapour. Natural gas 2.1 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine plant with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer. Wind offshore 1.7 GW is glimpsed in a distant sliver of North Sea horizon at the far right, a handful of turbines standing in hazy marine air. Hard coal 1.5 GW appears as a small coal-fired station with a single stack and coal yard beside it. Hydro 1.3 GW is suggested by a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse along a tree-lined stream in the mid-ground. The sky is 84% overcast with layered alto-stratus and cumulus, yet punctuated by gaps allowing shafts of bright August afternoon sunlight to break through at a high summer angle, illuminating patches of solar arrays with golden brilliance. The air is warm at 22°C; vegetation is lush deep green, late-summer fields of wheat stubble and sunflowers line the edges. The atmosphere carries a slightly heavy, hazy quality reflecting the moderately elevated electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich, saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric perspective and chiaroscuro where sunbeams pierce cloud. Every technology is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, panel racking, cooling tower parabolic curves, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene feels monumental yet grounded, an industrial pastoral masterwork. No text, no labels.