Solar at 38.9 GW drives 87% renewables share, pushing 6.5 GW net exports and near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 67%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 8%
87%
Renewable share
6.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.9 GW
Solar
57.9 GW
Total generation
+6.5 GW
Net export
1.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
94.0% / 270.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
96
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.9 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across two-thirds of a gently rolling central German landscape, their blue-grey surfaces gleaming faintly under a bright but heavily overcast midday sky with diffused white light filtering through thick stratiform clouds. Brown coal 4.8 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing wide columns of white steam that merge into the overcast ceiling. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground wood-chip CHP plant with a squat industrial chimney and stacked fuel piles. Wind onshore 4.0 GW is rendered as a line of five three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a distant ridge, their rotors turning lazily in the light breeze. Wind offshore 2.6 GW is suggested by a row of smaller turbines barely visible on a far grey horizon hinting at a northern sea. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact single-stack CCGT unit with a thin exhaust plume near the coal complex. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a single dark industrial boiler house with a tall rectangular chimney beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir on a stream crossing the foreground, water spilling over in white foam. The sky is luminous pearl-white with no blue visible, the light even and shadowless, temperature mild at 19°C with late-summer green foliage on deciduous trees beginning to show the faintest hint of early autumn yellowing. The atmosphere feels calm, open, and weightless — reflecting the near-zero electricity price. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich visible brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on all infrastructure, warm earth tones in the foreground transitioning to cool silvery greys in the distance. No text, no labels.