Solar at 35 GW and wind at 22 GW drive 82% renewables, yielding 15.5 GW net export at near-zero prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 23%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 46%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
82%
Renewable share
22.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
35.0 GW
Solar
75.5 GW
Total generation
+15.5 GW
Net export
6.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
89.0% / 305.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
127
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 35.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland, reflecting a diffused milky daylight through high overcast; wind onshore 17.2 GW fills the distant right horizon as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind; wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a row of turbines barely visible on a hazy northern horizon beyond a river estuary; brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thin steam plumes, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles; natural gas 3.6 GW sits in the left-centre middle ground as two compact CCGT blocks with single tall exhaust stacks releasing faint heat shimmer; hard coal 2.1 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single square cooling tower and coal silos beside rail tracks; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a modest timber-clad generating station with a wood-chip yard and a short flue stack near the village edge; hydro 1.1 GW is a small weir and run-of-river powerhouse tucked along a flowing stream in the lower foreground. The sky is overcast at 89% cloud cover but luminous, a bright silver-white ceiling with occasional brighter patches where the September midday sun at Berlin local time 12:00 pushes diffused light through thinning cloud layers — full daylight, no shadows, soft even illumination. The landscape is late-summer central German: fields turning golden-green, deciduous trees still mostly leafed in dark green with the earliest hints of yellowing, temperature a mild 17.9°C. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the ultra-low electricity price — no oppressive haze, no dramatic tension, just a vast peaceful industrial pastoral. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV module frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels, no people prominent.