Wind (28.9 GW) and solar (24.6 GW) dominate, creating 15.0 GW net export and zero-price conditions.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 36%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 39%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
28.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.6 GW
Solar
63.1 GW
Total generation
+15.0 GW
Net export
—
Day-ahead price
13.3°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
51.0% / 141.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
55
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 22.8 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of modern three-blade turbines with white tubular towers stretching across rolling mid-German hills with fading green and early-autumn foliage, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 6.1 GW appears in the far-right background as a line of larger turbines on the hazy horizon beyond a distant coast. Solar 24.6 GW fills the centre-left foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels angled toward a partly cloudy sky, their glass surfaces reflecting broken sunlight and dappled cloud shadows. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial facilities with rectangular buildings, wood-chip storage silos, and thin exhaust stacks emitting pale vapour, positioned in the left-centre middle ground. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with lazy white steam plumes and a low conveyor structure, modest but unmistakable. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and a smaller heat-recovery unit, situated just right of the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.0 GW is a single smaller stack with a thin dark wisp beside the gas plant. Hydro 0.8 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam and reservoir glimpsed in a valley in the far middle distance. The sky is early-afternoon full daylight with roughly half cloud cover — cumulus clouds drifting across a bright blue sky, direct sunlight breaking through gaps and casting moving patches of light and shadow across the landscape. Temperature is mild at 13°C; vegetation shows early autumn tones — golden birches, fading grass, some green conifers. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting a zero-price hour with no tension or oppression. 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 with haze in the distance — but with meticulous modern engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower ribbing, and industrial stack. No text, no labels.