Solar at 46.5 GW drives 84% renewable share and 12.3 GW net exports at midday.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 63%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
46.5 GW
Solar
73.3 GW
Total generation
+12.3 GW
Net export
44.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 351.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
118
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 46.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across roughly 63% of the composition, covering gentle rolling hills in the foreground and middle ground, their blue-black faces glinting under direct midday sun. Brown coal 6.5 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Wind onshore 6.2 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 3.8 GW is suggested by a distant row of turbines visible on a hazy horizon line at the far right. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a short stack emitting faint vapour, nestled among late-summer deciduous trees with full green canopies just beginning to hint at early autumn gold. Hard coal 2.8 GW appears as a smaller power station with a single rectangular cooling tower and coal bunker beside the brown coal complex. Natural gas 2.7 GW is a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a slender exhaust stack and clean metal cladding, positioned between the coal plants and the solar fields. Hydro 1.1 GW is depicted as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a visible spillway in a stream crossing the lower foreground. The sky is half covered with fair-weather cumulus clouds drifting across a bright blue expanse, midday sun high and strong at roughly 60° elevation, casting short shadows; direct solar radiation creates vivid highlights on panel surfaces. Temperature is a pleasant 22°C late summer—lush green grass between panel rows, wildflowers, warm atmosphere. The overall mood is calm and open, reflecting moderate electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into hazy blue distance, but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel junction box, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people prominent—an epic industrial pastoral.