Strong onshore wind and high solar under overcast skies drive 26.4 GW net export and near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 38%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
28.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.8 GW
Solar
72.4 GW
Total generation
+26.4 GW
Net export
-0.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.8°C / 20 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
100.0% / 105.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
103
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 26.4 GW dominates the right half and background of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across rolling green summer hills, rotors spinning briskly in steady wind. Solar 27.8 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels arrayed in neat rows across flat farmland, reflecting pale diffuse light. Brown coal 5.7 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts feeding lignite into a sprawling plant. Wind offshore 2.4 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a line of turbines standing in a grey sea. Biomass 4.4 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial facility with wood-chip storage domes and a single tall stack releasing thin vapour. Natural gas 2.4 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a sleek exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plant and the biomass facility. Hard coal 2.2 GW shows as a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and coal bunkers. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam nestled in a wooded valley at the painting's far edge. The sky is fully overcast with a uniform blanket of grey-white stratiform clouds at 10:00 AM in late August, providing bright but completely diffuse daylight with no direct sun or shadows—soft, even illumination across the entire landscape. Temperature is mild at 21°C; vegetation is lush late-summer green with full canopy trees. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price—no oppressive mood, just a vast, quietly humming industrial-pastoral panorama. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich colour palette of greens, greys, and muted whites, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading to blue-grey in the distance, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, and cooling tower curvature. No text, no labels.