Solar at 44.9 GW dominates a 78% renewable midday mix, driving 15.9 GW of net exports despite persistent coal baseload.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 57%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 10%
78%
Renewable share
11.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
44.9 GW
Solar
78.5 GW
Total generation
+15.9 GW
Net export
59.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
59.0% / 150.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
155
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 44.9 GW dominates the scene, covering over half the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland in autumn, angled south and catching midday light filtered through partial cloud cover. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the partly cloudy sky, flanked by conveyor belts carrying dark lignite. Wind onshore 6.0 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a distant ridge, rotors turning slowly in the light breeze. Wind offshore 5.7 GW is suggested by a row of monopile turbines barely visible on a hazy northern horizon. Natural gas 4.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with twin exhaust stacks and a modest heat shimmer, positioned centre-left. Hard coal 4.4 GW appears as a traditional coal plant with a single large smokestack and coal yard beside rail tracks. Biomass 4.0 GW is a modest wood-chip facility with a rounded silo and small chimney near a forest edge. Hydro 0.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir barely visible along a stream in the foreground. The sky is midday bright but layered with broken cumulus clouds at roughly 59% coverage, allowing shafts of direct sunlight to illuminate the solar arrays while casting soft shadows elsewhere. Temperature is a cool 12°C autumn day; trees show early gold-and-russet foliage, meadows are green but fading. The atmosphere is neither oppressive nor serene — a working, productive firmness befitting the 59.6 EUR/MWh price. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric perspective and depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV cell grid, cooling tower parabolic profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.