Solar at 26 GW and wind at 18.3 GW drive 7.5 GW net exports on a mild, partly cloudy afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 26%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 47%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 7%
88%
Renewable share
18.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.0 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
+7.5 GW
Net export
13.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.9°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
70.0% / 264.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
84
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.0 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and right half of the composition, their blue-black surfaces catching diffused afternoon light. Wind onshore 14.3 GW fills the middle distance as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning steadily in moderate wind, spread across rolling green hills. Wind offshore 4.0 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines visible on a distant hazy horizon line suggesting the North Sea. Brown coal 4.2 GW occupies the left middle-ground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the overcast, beside a lignite conveyor and ash-grey structures. Biomass 3.9 GW sits adjacent as a modest industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single squat smokestack emitting thin vapor. Natural gas 1.5 GW is rendered as a small, compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack and minimal exhaust, tucked beside the biomass facility. Hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small concrete dam with a thin cascade of water in a forested valley on the far left. Hard coal 0.7 GW is a single aging boiler house with a brick chimney barely visible behind the cooling towers. The sky is 70% covered with layered cumulus and alto-stratus clouds in warm greys and creams, with generous patches of blue sky allowing shafts of direct golden-hour sunlight at 16:00 Berlin time—sun moderately high in the west, casting long warm shadows. The landscape is late-summer central German: fields still green but with early hints of autumn gold in scattered deciduous trees, temperature 26°C conveyed through hazy warm air. The low electricity price is expressed through a calm, open, luminous atmosphere with no oppressive weight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth to the layered scene, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature. No text, no labels.