Solar at 30.8 GW and wind at 16.8 GW drive 89% renewables, pushing 7.9 GW net exports at near-zero prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 52%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
89%
Renewable share
16.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.8 GW
Solar
59.7 GW
Total generation
+7.9 GW
Net export
4.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
8.9°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
96.0% / 76.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
76
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.8 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, covering roughly half the canvas, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a pale overcast sky. Wind onshore 12.6 GW fills the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers receding into the misty distance across rolling green spring farmland, blades turning gently in moderate breeze. Wind offshore 4.2 GW appears as a cluster of larger turbines on the far-right horizon above a sliver of grey North Sea. Biomass 4.4 GW is depicted as a mid-sized industrial plant with wood-chip silos and a modest smokestack in the left-center middle ground. Brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic cooling towers with thin wisps of steam rising, rendered with engineering precision. Natural gas 2.2 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack emitting faint heat shimmer, positioned just right of the cooling towers. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley at far left. Hard coal 0.8 GW is a single smaller stack barely visible behind the biomass plant. The sky is heavy, uniformly overcast at 96% cloud cover, with a bright but diffuse white-grey glow from the 10 AM sun trying to penetrate — full spring daylight but no shadows, no direct sunbeams. Temperature near 9°C: fresh green grass, budding deciduous trees, cool spring atmosphere. The mood is calm, serene, almost contemplative — reflecting the extremely low 4.2 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is lush early spring with bright green fields and scattered wildflowers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective in mist and overcast light — but with meticulous technical accuracy for every energy installation. No text, no labels, no people prominent. The painting conveys industrial sublime: the quiet overwhelming abundance of a grid producing far more than it needs under a soft grey sky.