Solar at 43 GW drives 91% renewable share and net exports of 9.1 GW under broken midday cloud.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 2%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 78%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 5%
91%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
43.0 GW
Solar
54.9 GW
Total generation
+9.0 GW
Net export
-0.1 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.6°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
57% / 363.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
63
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 43.0 GW dominates the scene as an enormous expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly four-fifths of the composition, their aluminium frames gleaming under strong midday sunlight filtering through broken cumulus clouds. Brown coal 2.7 GW appears in the left background as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with gentle white steam plumes rising into the partly cloudy sky. Biomass 3.9 GW is represented as a cluster of modest wood-fired CHP plants with broad low stacks emitting thin pale exhaust, positioned in the middle-left distance behind the solar field. Natural gas 1.7 GW shows as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and minimal vapor, set behind the biomass cluster. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir and powerhouse nestled along a gentle river in the right background. Wind onshore 1.3 GW is depicted as just two or three distant three-blade turbines on lattice towers standing motionless on a far ridge, rotors still, reflecting the near-zero wind. The sky is bright midday May light with scattered cumulus clouds at roughly 57% coverage, patches of vivid blue between white-grey cloud masses, direct sunbeams casting sharp shadows across the solar arrays. Temperature is mild spring — fresh green foliage on deciduous trees, wildflowers in meadow edges, rapeseed fields in yellow bloom. The atmosphere is calm, open, and luminous, conveying a sense of effortless abundance consistent with negative electricity prices. 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 impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — yet rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct nacelle housings and three-blade rotor geometry on wind turbines, precise aluminium-framed monocrystalline panel textures, anatomically correct hyperbolic cooling tower geometry with reinforced concrete ribbing. The painting feels like a masterwork hanging in a museum, a Romantic industrial pastoral. No text, no labels, no people.