Solar at 26.9 GW and wind at 19.6 GW push Germany to 8.1 GW net export with negative prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 31%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 48%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 4%
92%
Renewable share
19.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
26.9 GW
Solar
56.1 GW
Total generation
+8.2 GW
Net export
-5.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.9°C / 23 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
72.0% / 206.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
53
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 26.9 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-black surfaces catching diffuse morning light through broken cloud; wind onshore 17.5 GW fills the mid-ground and background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, rotors visibly spinning in a brisk 23 km/h breeze; wind offshore 2.1 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon where a faint coastal line is suggested; biomass 3.8 GW is represented by a mid-sized biogas facility with a green-domed digester and a low stack emitting thin white vapour on the left foreground; brown coal 2.3 GW stands as two hyperbolic cooling towers in the far left background, issuing modest steam plumes against grey clouds; natural gas 1.5 GW appears as a compact CCGT plant with a single slender exhaust stack beside the cooling towers; hydro 1.5 GW is depicted as a small weir and run-of-river station along a tree-lined stream in the lower-left corner; hard coal 0.4 GW is barely visible as a single dark smokestack behind the brown coal towers, nearly dormant. The sky is a layered 72% overcast—banks of soft cumulus and alto-stratus in grey and cream, with wide breaks of pale blue June sky letting warm 9 AM sunlight shaft through in dramatic crepuscular beams. The lighting is full mid-morning daylight, sun moderately high in the east-southeast, casting long but brightening shadows. Temperature of 15.9 °C is reflected in fresh green deciduous foliage, wildflower meadows with poppies and cornflowers, and dewy grass. The negative electricity price imparts a calm, expansive, open atmosphere—wide skies, gentle horizons, no oppressive weight. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with misty blue distances—rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel junction box, and cooling tower fluting. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.