Wind and solar together produce 74 GW under overcast skies, driving 36 GW of net exports and deeply negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 42%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 40%
Biomass 5%
Hydro 1%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 3%
94%
Renewable share
40.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.4 GW
Solar
84.1 GW
Total generation
+36.2 GW
Net export
-71.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.9°C / 29 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 58.2 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
40
gCOâ‚‚/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 35.0 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers stretching across the entire right half and deep into the background, their rotors spinning vigorously in strong wind; wind offshore 5.6 GW appears as a distant cluster of larger turbines on the hazy horizon above a grey-green sea inlet at far right. Solar 33.4 GW fills the left-centre foreground as enormous fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels on low ground-mount racks, their surfaces reflecting diffuse grey-white light under total overcast. Biomass 4.3 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall flue and wood-chip storage silos at left-centre. Brown coal 2.5 GW occupies the far left as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin white steam plumes rising into the heavy sky, adjacent to a conveyor-fed lignite bunker. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting a faint heat shimmer, positioned between the cooling towers and the biomass facility. Hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir with visible spillway foam in a stream in the lower-left corner. Hard coal 0.6 GW is a single modest smokestack behind the gas plant, barely visible. The sky is entirely overcast at 100% cloud cover — a flat, luminous pearl-white canopy with no blue patches, casting soft shadowless midday daylight across the scene. The atmosphere feels calm and open despite the clouds, evoking the deeply negative electricity price. Spring vegetation: fresh pale-green buds on deciduous trees, young grass, wildflowers beginning in meadows between turbine bases. Wind animates the scene — grass bent sideways, turbine blades in strong rotation, steam plumes sheared eastward. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective fading into misty distance — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower shell, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.