Solar at 38.9 GW drives 7.2 GW net exports and a near-zero price under partly cloudy September skies.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 14%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 59%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
80%
Renewable share
9.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
66.2 GW
Total generation
+7.2 GW
Net export
1.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.2°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 385.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
150
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.9 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland in the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting under a high early-afternoon sun partially veiled by scattered cumulus clouds. Brown coal 7.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting in the breeze. Wind onshore 9.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines on gentle ridgelines in the middle distance, their rotors spinning in a moderate wind. Hard coal 3.3 GW is rendered as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single square cooling tower and a tall chimney beside the lignite complex. Natural gas 2.2 GW shows as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a slender exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked between the coal plants and wind turbines. Biomass 3.3 GW appears as a modest biogas facility with a green-domed digester and a short flue near the edge of a ripe cornfield. Wind offshore 0.7 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy blue horizon line. Hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir visible along a glinting stream in the foreground. The sky is 50% covered with bright white cumulus against vivid blue, full midday daylight at 14:00, warm late-summer atmosphere at 27°C with lush green deciduous trees edging golden fields. The mood is calm and open, reflecting a near-zero electricity price. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.