Solar at 37.9 GW and wind at 25.9 GW drive 26.6 GW net exports and negative prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 52%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
93%
Renewable share
25.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
37.9 GW
Solar
73.4 GW
Total generation
+26.6 GW
Net export
-19.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.1°C / 25 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
39.0% / 224.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
52
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 37.9 GW dominates the scene as a vast foreground plain of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across more than half the canvas, their blue-black surfaces glinting under a partly cloudy afternoon sky with 39% cloud cover. Wind onshore 22.8 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors spinning briskly in the 25 km/h breeze, spreading across rolling green late-summer hills with mature foliage. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a small cluster of turbines on the far horizon, barely visible through atmospheric haze. Brown coal 2.9 GW is rendered as two hyperbolic cooling towers on the far left emitting modest white steam plumes. Biomass 3.4 GW appears as a mid-sized industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single stack producing faint exhaust, positioned left of centre. Natural gas 1.4 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a slim exhaust stack releasing a thin heat shimmer, tucked behind the biomass facility. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a small conventional power station with a single square cooling tower and low stack, barely visible at the far left edge. Hydro 0.8 GW is suggested by a small reservoir dam nestled in a wooded valley at the right edge. The sky is bright afternoon daylight — high sun at 14:00 Berlin time — with scattered cumulus clouds casting drifting shadows across the panel fields, the atmosphere calm, open, and luminous, reflecting the negative electricity price. The landscape is lush late-summer central German terrain: green fields beginning to show early hints of autumn gold, deciduous trees in full leaf, gentle rolling topography. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.