Solar at 40.2 GW overwhelms 47.4 GW demand under overcast skies, pushing 10.3 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 70%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
92%
Renewable share
7.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
40.2 GW
Solar
57.7 GW
Total generation
+10.2 GW
Net export
0.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.4°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
93.0% / 63.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
60
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 40.2 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling farmland, covering roughly 70% of the composition from the centre to the right, their aluminium frames catching diffuse grey-white light. Brown coal 2.8 GW appears at the far left as a pair of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thin wisps of steam. Wind onshore 6.1 GW stands as a cluster of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the mid-left background, rotors turning lazily. Wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy horizon line. Biomass 3.8 GW is a modest timber-clad generating station with a small smokestack and woodchip storage silo in the left-centre middle ground. Natural gas 1.6 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single clean exhaust stack, placed near the coal towers. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small weir and powerhouse along a river in the foreground. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single industrial stack barely visible behind the gas plant. The sky is a heavy, uniform blanket of 93% overcast cloud in layered greys and pale whites, fully daylit at 10:00 AM — bright but without direct sunshine, no shadows on the ground, soft ambient light everywhere. The air is calm, matching 6 km/h winds; grass and trees show minimal motion. Vegetation is late-summer green beginning to hint at early autumn tones, temperature around 11°C suggesting cool morning air with slight mist in low-lying areas near the river. The overall atmosphere is tranquil and open, reflecting the near-zero electricity price — no oppressive heaviness, just a vast quiet pastoral-industrial plain. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic compositional sweep from foreground river to distant horizon, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV module edge, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.