Solar at 38.9 GW leads a 86% renewable hour; 5.2 GW net export with coal providing baseload inertia.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 62%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
86%
Renewable share
11.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
62.9 GW
Total generation
+5.2 GW
Net export
78.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.8°C / 24 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
48.0% / 260.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
105
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 rolling late-summer farmland, their glass surfaces reflecting intense afternoon sunlight. Wind onshore 9.2 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice-and-tubular towers scattered across green hills in the mid-ground, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is visible as a distant cluster of offshore turbines on the far horizon above a faintly glimpsed sea. Brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left background as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that drift eastward. Hard coal 2.3 GW sits adjacent as a smaller coal plant with a single large smokestack and rectangular boiler house. Natural gas 1.3 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slender exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked beside the coal complex. Biomass 3.3 GW is represented by a cluster of mid-sized biogas domes and a small wood-chip CHP plant with a short brick chimney emitting thin white vapour, situated at the edge of a village. Hydro 0.8 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with visible spillway on a tree-lined river winding through the foreground. The sky is a 4 PM September afternoon — bright sun at about 35° elevation breaking through scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly half the sky, warm golden-amber light raking across the landscape from the west, casting long shadows. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and hazy with late-summer warmth at 28°C — lush green deciduous trees and golden grain stubble in harvested fields. Vegetation is full but beginning to show the faintest hints of early autumn. The overall mood is luminous but weighty, the price pressure suggested by a thick, slightly oppressive humidity in the air. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and smokestack detail. No text, no labels.