Solar at 34.9 GW and wind at 20.4 GW drive 19.7 GW of net exports and a near-zero price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 51%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
20.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
34.9 GW
Solar
69.0 GW
Total generation
+19.7 GW
Net export
-0.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.7°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
47.0% / 222.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
86
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 34.9 GW dominates the scene as vast expanses of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green fields in the foreground and middle ground, their aluminium frames glinting under bright mid-morning summer light filtering through a sky roughly half-covered with cumulus clouds. Wind onshore 17.7 GW fills the middle distance and right side as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, scattered across gentle hills with late-summer vegetation — green but beginning to hint at golden edges. Wind offshore 2.7 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon line to the far right. Brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left background as a lignite power station with two large hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes drifting slowly, alongside a low rectangular boiler house with a tall chimney. Biomass 4.3 GW appears as a compact biogas facility with rounded digesters and a modest stack near the coal plant. Natural gas 1.9 GW is rendered as a small CCGT unit with a single slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a river in the lower left with a low concrete weir and small powerhouse. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single small industrial stack barely visible behind the lignite towers, with only a thin wisp of smoke. The sky is bright but not blazing, with roughly half cloud cover creating a patchwork of sunlit and shadowed ground; the atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Temperature is mild at 17.7 °C, with lush late-summer greenery — wildflowers, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible layered brushwork, atmospheric depth with soft aerial perspective toward the horizon — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel junction box, cooling tower curvature, and CCGT exhaust detail. No text, no labels.