Solar at 27.3 GW and wind at 21.8 GW drive 85% renewable generation, pushing Germany into 2.4 GW net export.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 29%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 43%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 9%
85%
Renewable share
21.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.3 GW
Solar
64.1 GW
Total generation
+2.4 GW
Net export
60.9 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.8°C / 18 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
48.0% / 178.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
108
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.3 GW dominates the right half and centre-right of the scene as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels arrayed across gentle rolling green fields, glinting under partly cloudy midday light. Wind onshore 18.7 GW fills the centre and centre-left as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on white tubular towers stretching across hillsides, rotors turning briskly in moderate wind. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears as a small cluster of larger turbines on the distant horizon, standing in a faintly visible grey-blue sea. Brown coal 5.8 GW occupies the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, with a lignite conveyor belt visible at the base. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a tall rectangular stack and wood-chip storage silos nestled among trees in the left-centre background. Natural gas 2.4 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and smaller heat-recovery unit, placed between the coal complex and the wind turbines. Hydro 1.7 GW is a concrete dam with a thin ribbon of water spilling over, set into a wooded valley in the far background. Hard coal 1.3 GW is a smaller power station with a single rectangular smokestack emitting a light grey plume, adjacent to the brown coal complex on the far left. The sky is a luminous late-morning June sky with roughly half cloud cover — cumulus clouds drifting at mid-altitude, allowing broad patches of direct sunlight to illuminate the solar arrays while other sections fall under cloud shadow. Temperature is mild at 16°C; vegetation is lush early-summer green with wildflowers in meadows. The atmosphere is neither oppressive nor serene — a balanced, workaday midday feel at moderate price. Painted as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth across a wide panoramic composition, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell reflection, every cooling tower's parabolic curvature and concrete texture. No text, no labels, no people in the foreground.