Solar at 35.5 GW and wind at 16.1 GW push renewables to 93%, driving prices negative amid 14.4 GW net export.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 58%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
16.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.5 GW
Solar
61.0 GW
Total generation
+14.3 GW
Net export
-0.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.7°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 138.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
50
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire right half and centre of the composition, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but overcast sky. Wind onshore 13.4 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice and tubular towers arrayed across rolling green hills in the centre-left, blades turning gently in light wind. Wind offshore 2.7 GW is visible in the far distance as a line of turbines standing in a hazy sea on the horizon. Brown coal 2.7 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin steam plumes rising into the cloud layer, attached to an industrial complex with conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a cluster of modest biogas facilities with rounded digesters and small exhaust stacks near the left-centre. Natural gas 1.3 GW is a single compact CCGT plant with a slender exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass units. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam and reservoir visible in a valley in the middle distance. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single tall brick chimney barely smoking, nearly hidden behind the lignite complex. The sky is 89% overcast—a high, uniform, luminous grey cloud deck diffusing bright mid-morning August daylight, with small patches of pale blue visible at the edges. The atmosphere is calm, open, and tranquil, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. The landscape is lush late-summer green with mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers in meadow strips between panel arrays, temperature around 16°C suggesting mild, slightly cool air. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.