Solar at 28.4 GW and wind at 17.6 GW drive 90.5% renewables, pushing 9.9 GW of net exports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 50%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
90%
Renewable share
17.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.4 GW
Solar
56.8 GW
Total generation
+9.8 GW
Net export
4.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.6°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
100.0% / 300.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
66
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.4 GW dominates the foreground and centre as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the mid-ground, their blue-grey surfaces reflecting a bright but fully overcast white sky. Wind onshore 13.8 GW fills the right third of the composition as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors turning gently in moderate breeze, arrayed across green May hillsides. Wind offshore 3.8 GW appears in the far right distance as a cluster of offshore turbines on the horizon line above a faint strip of sea. Biomass 4.0 GW is rendered as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a rectangular stack emitting pale steam, positioned left of centre behind the solar fields. Brown coal 3.0 GW occupies the far left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that merge with the overcast. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, nestled beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.4 GW is suggested by a small concrete run-of-river dam and penstock visible in a valley on the left middle ground. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the lignite towers. The sky is a uniform bright white-grey overcast at 16:00 in May — full diffuse daylight, no direct sun disk visible, luminous but flat lighting casting soft shadowless illumination across the entire scene. The landscape is lush spring green, deciduous trees in full young leaf, wildflowers speckling meadow edges, temperature mild at 12.6°C suggesting cool freshness. The atmosphere is calm and open, reflecting the extremely low electricity price — no oppressive weight, just a serene, productive industrial pastoral. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel busbar, every cooling tower's hyperbolic curvature. No text, no labels.