Solar at 31.8 GW and wind at 18.3 GW drive 10.4 GW of net exports despite persistent brown coal baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 18%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 45%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 12%
77%
Renewable share
18.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
31.8 GW
Solar
71.4 GW
Total generation
+10.5 GW
Net export
122.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
71.0% / 86.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
165
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 31.8 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland, reflecting diffuse daylight under a high overcast sky. Wind onshore 12.7 GW appears as dozens of three-blade turbines with white tubular towers spread across gentle hills in the mid-ground right, rotors turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 5.6 GW is visible in the far background as a row of tall offshore turbines standing in a hazy coastal sea glimpsed through a valley. Brown coal 8.8 GW occupies the left foreground as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, adjacent open-pit mine terraces visible. Natural gas 4.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and slim vapour trail, positioned left of centre. Hard coal 3.4 GW sits as a dark-brick power station with two rectangular chimneys and a conveyor belt of black coal, placed behind the gas plant. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad facility with a short stack and thin white smoke, nestled among trees at left mid-ground. Hydro 0.9 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir with a stone powerhouse barely visible along a river winding through the valley floor. The sky is late-September mid-morning full daylight, 71% cloud cover — a luminous grey-white overcast with patches of pale blue and muted sunlight filtering through, casting soft diffuse shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the daylight, reflecting high electricity prices: a warm haze hangs over the industrial structures, the air slightly amber-tinted. Vegetation is early-autumn — leaves on deciduous trees turning yellow and copper, grass still green but fading, stubble fields after harvest. Temperature 15.8°C gives a cool crispness. 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 impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon, dramatic chiaroscuro between the glowing cloud-filtered light and the dark industrial masses. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with anemometers, lattice transmission towers with sagging conductors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.