Solar leads at 19.3 GW but low wind and 29°C heat drive 14 GW net imports and elevated prices.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 43%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
60%
Renewable share
2.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.3 GW
Solar
45.0 GW
Total generation
-14.0 GW
Net import
169.7 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.4°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
44.0% / 259.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
287
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, angled toward a low western sun; brown coal 9.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station with four hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes; natural gas 5.3 GW appears left of centre as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer; hard coal 3.7 GW sits behind the gas plant as a smaller coal station with a rectangular boiler house and single squat cooling tower; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a cluster of cylindrical digesters and a small wood-chip combustion plant with a modest smokestack near the centre; hydro 1.7 GW appears as a concrete run-of-river weir on a slow river in the middle ground; wind onshore 1.6 GW is shown as three widely spaced three-blade turbines with lattice towers on a distant ridge, their rotors barely turning; wind offshore 0.4 GW is suggested by a faint silhouette of two turbines on a hazy far horizon. The time is 18:00 in late June: the sun hangs low in the west-northwest, casting long golden-orange light across the landscape, the sky above transitioning from warm amber near the horizon to a hazy pale blue overhead with scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly 44 percent of the sky. The air feels heavy and oppressive — heat haze ripples above the PV panels and the dry golden wheat fields between installations, conveying the 29°C temperature and the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green on riverbanks but sun-bleached in exposed fields. Transmission pylons with high-voltage lines cross the scene, subtly referencing the large import flows. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic landscape oil painting — rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower profile — evoking Caspar David Friedrich's sense of sublime scale married to industrial realism. No text, no labels.