Overcast solar at 28.4 GW and 15.1 GW wind drive 77% renewables with 6.2 GW net export at midday.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 11%
77%
Renewable share
15.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.4 GW
Solar
63.2 GW
Total generation
+6.2 GW
Net export
110.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.5°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 37.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
162
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.4 GW dominates the foreground and middle ground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling central German farmland under a uniformly overcast white-grey sky, their surfaces gleaming dully with diffuse light. Wind onshore 12.1 GW fills the right third and middle distance as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning at moderate speed in the breeze. Wind offshore 3.0 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines visible on a hazy horizon line. Brown coal 6.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that merge into the overcast ceiling. Hard coal 3.6 GW sits beside the brown coal plant as a smaller power station with tall rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts feeding dark fuel. Natural gas 4.1 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks and low white exhaust, positioned centre-left. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a round wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack amid green vegetation. Hydro 1.3 GW appears as a small dam and spillway in a valley on the far right edge. The time is noon but the sky is entirely sealed with low stratus cloud — no blue, no sun disc — casting flat, shadowless daylight across the landscape. Late-summer green foliage on deciduous trees, some fields of mature crops. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — humid summer air, dense clouds pressing down. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich colour palette, visible confident brushwork, and deep atmospheric perspective, yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.