Solar provides 36 GW under clear skies while coal and gas compensate for near-zero wind generation.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 1%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 59%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 11%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
69%
Renewable share
0.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
36.1 GW
Solar
61.2 GW
Total generation
-0.8 GW
Net import
119.3 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.3°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 221.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
213
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 36.1 GW dominates the scene as a vast expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer farmland in the right two-thirds of the composition, their aluminium frames glinting intensely under brilliant direct sunlight. Brown coal 8.9 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes rising vertically in the dead-calm air. Natural gas 6.5 GW appears as a set of modern combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and compact turbine halls positioned left of centre. Hard coal 3.4 GW is rendered as a single large power station with a prominent smokestack and coal conveyors just behind the gas units. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a modest wood-chip-fed plant with a squat industrial building and a gently smoking chimney nestled among trees at the far left edge. Hydro 1.8 GW is suggested by a concrete dam with a reservoir visible in a small valley in the distant left background. Wind turbines are nearly invisible — only two or three small three-blade rotors on lattice towers stand utterly still on a far ridge, their blades motionless. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep saturated summer blue with the sun high in the east at a mid-morning 09:00 angle casting long warm shadows to the west. The atmosphere feels heavy, warm, and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a slight haze shimmering above the solar panels suggesting heat and an elevated electricity price. Lush green deciduous trees and meadow grasses frame the scene edges, consistent with a 21°C June day. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth — but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. The composition feels monumental, a contemporary industrial landscape rendered as a masterwork. No text, no labels.