Solar at 38.9 GW leads generation; 11.5 GW net exports and low prices reflect midday renewable oversupply.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 13%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 54%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
73%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
72.3 GW
Total generation
+11.5 GW
Net export
16.8 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.2°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
34.0% / 365.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.9 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling late-summer farmland, their blue-black surfaces glinting under strong midday sun; brown coal 10.7 GW occupies the far left as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; hard coal 4.7 GW appears just left of centre as a smaller coal-fired plant with tall rectangular boiler houses and a single thin smokestack trailing grey haze; natural gas 3.9 GW sits as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with polished cylindrical exhaust stacks and a modest steam wisp beside the coal plants; wind onshore 9.2 GW fills the upper middle-ground as two dozen three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular steel towers rotating briskly in a moderate breeze, scattered across green and golden fields of late-season crops; wind offshore 0.8 GW is suggested by a faint cluster of turbines visible on a distant blue horizon line; biomass 3.3 GW appears as a small wood-chip plant with a conical silo and low steam vent nestled among trees at centre-right; hydro 0.8 GW is a small weir and powerhouse beside a river winding through the foreground. The sky is bright midday daylight with roughly one-third scattered cumulus clouds, the rest vivid blue, sunlight casting sharp shadows; temperature is warm at 24 °C, trees in full late-summer green with hints of early yellowing at the edges; the atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a low electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective lending depth — yet every technological element is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelle housings, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. No text, no labels.