Solar at 41.8 GW and wind at 18.7 GW drive 22.5 GW net exports and negative prices at midday.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
94%
Renewable share
18.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
41.8 GW
Solar
70.4 GW
Total generation
+22.5 GW
Net export
-1.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.5°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
48.0% / 398.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
44
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 41.8 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, covering more than half the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under partly cloudy skies with 48% cloud cover and strong direct sunlight breaking through. Wind onshore 16.1 GW appears as dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-section towers arrayed along ridgelines in the middle distance, blades visibly turning in a brisk 19.7 km/h breeze. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by a cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faint strip of sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is represented by a mid-sized biomass plant with a rounded silo and modest smokestack emitting thin white vapour, positioned in the mid-ground among green summer trees. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies a small section at the left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle steam plumes rising into the summer air. Natural gas 1.6 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is rendered as a small weir and powerhouse set along a river winding through the foreground meadow. Hard coal 0.4 GW is the faintest element, a single small industrial chimney barely smoking near the coal plant. The sky is a luminous summer midday sky with broken cumulus clouds, blue openings between them, sunlight casting warm highlights and soft shadows across the green August landscape with full deciduous foliage at 21.5 °C. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the negative electricity price — no oppression, no tension, just abundant energy spilling across the land. 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 colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine, panel, and industrial structure. No text, no labels.