Strong wind and moderate solar drive 74% renewables at 79.6 GW, creating 17.6 GW of net exports despite persistent coal and gas generation.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 35%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 27%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
74%
Renewable share
32.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.4 GW
Solar
79.6 GW
Total generation
+17.6 GW
Net export
111.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 17 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
53.0% / 45.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
179
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade wind turbines stretching across rolling green-gold late-September hills, their rotors spinning briskly in moderate wind; brown coal 9.2 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the sky; natural gas 6.9 GW appears as a group of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and thinner vapour trails, positioned left-of-centre; solar 21.4 GW fills the mid-ground as broad fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled toward a partially cloudy sky, catching diffused and intermittent direct sunlight; wind offshore 4.6 GW is visible on the distant horizon as a line of turbines rising from a faintly suggested sea; hard coal 4.4 GW appears as a smaller conventional power station with a single large smokestack and conveyor infrastructure near the brown coal complex; biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a modest industrial facility with rounded storage silos and a wood-chip yard; hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a forested valley in the far background. Full mid-morning daylight at 10:00 in late September, the sky roughly half-covered with layered cumulus and altocumulus clouds allowing patches of blue and shafts of sunlight, the atmosphere carrying a heavy, slightly oppressive warmth suggesting high electricity prices — a faint haze and density in the air. Vegetation shows early autumn tones: green fields tinged with gold, scattered deciduous trees beginning to turn amber. The scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, dramatic cloud studies — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack detail. No text, no labels.