Strong onshore wind and robust solar create 8.9 GW net exports, collapsing the day-ahead price to zero.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 48%
Wind offshore 11%
Solar 24%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
91%
Renewable share
33.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
13.9 GW
Solar
57.6 GW
Total generation
+8.9 GW
Net export
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Day-ahead price
14.3°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
30.0% / 102.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
60
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 27.6 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across rolling mid-German hills from the centre to the far right, their rotors spinning briskly in an 18 km/h breeze; solar 13.9 GW appears as extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels covering gentle south-facing slopes and field edges in the centre-left foreground, catching low-angle October afternoon sunlight; wind offshore 6.3 GW is visible far in the background as a line of tall monopile turbines on the hazy northern horizon; biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired power station with a tall stack and small steam plume nestled among trees at left-centre; brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as a pair of hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of white steam, dwarfed by the renewable infrastructure; natural gas 1.6 GW sits as a compact CCGT plant with a single exhaust stack near the brown coal facility; hard coal 0.8 GW appears as a small conventional plant with a single chimney barely visible behind the cooling towers; hydro 0.9 GW is a small weir and run-of-river station along a gentle river in the foreground. The sky is mostly clear with scattered cumulus clouds covering about 30% of a pale blue autumn sky; the sun is at a moderate westward angle casting long golden-hour shadows at 16:00 in October; trees show early autumn colour in yellows and russets at 14°C; the atmosphere is calm, open, expansive, reflecting the zero-price tranquility of an oversupplied grid. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower profile, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.