Strong onshore wind and late-afternoon solar drive 85% renewables, pushing 11.7 GW of net exports at low prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 40%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 32%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 8%
85%
Renewable share
32.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.9 GW
Solar
68.9 GW
Total generation
+11.7 GW
Net export
28.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.7°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
77.0% / 253.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
109
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.4 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling green-brown autumn hills from the centre to the far right, rotors spinning briskly in strong wind; wind offshore 4.8 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon line above a grey-blue sea glimpsed through a valley; solar 21.9 GW fills the left-centre foreground as expansive fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels tilted southward on metal racks, their surfaces reflecting a diffused silvery-white light from the partly clouded sky; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left background as a lignite power station with two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift rightward in the wind; hard coal 2.5 GW appears as a smaller coal plant with a single rectangular boiler house and tall chimney stack with a thin grey exhaust; natural gas 2.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single polished exhaust stack and visible heat-recovery steam generator near the coal plants; biomass 3.6 GW shows as a medium-sized industrial facility with a wood-chip storage dome and a modest smokestack with faint vapour; hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible along a stream in the mid-ground. The sky is 77% overcast with layered alto-stratus clouds in grey and cream, but with breaks allowing shafts of warm late-afternoon September sunlight at 16:00 Berlin time — sun fairly low in the west, casting long golden-amber light across the landscape beneath cloud gaps, with direct radiation creating patches of brightness on the solar panels and turbine blades. Vegetation shows early autumn transition — some yellowing leaves on deciduous trees, green fields fading. Temperature is mild, 17.7°C, with a gentle haze in the valleys. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the low electricity price — no oppressive tones. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting, reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich crossed with industrial realism — rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, luminous cloud rendering, meticulous engineering detail on all turbine nacelles, PV cell grids, cooling tower concrete textures, and steel structures. No text, no labels.