Solar leads at 19.9 GW but extreme heat drives 57.7 GW demand, requiring 12.9 GW net imports and heavy coal dispatch.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 45%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
6.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
44.8 GW
Total generation
-13.0 GW
Net import
135.2 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.2°C / 11 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 397.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
215
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across parched golden-brown farmland, angled toward a blazing low sun; brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky; hard coal 2.7 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single tall smokestack and conveyor belt beside it, just left of centre; natural gas 3.3 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a slim exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, positioned centre-left; wind onshore 4.8 GW shows as a modest line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the mid-background, their rotors turning slowly; wind offshore 1.4 GW appears as a few distant turbines on a hazy horizon line; biomass 3.6 GW is depicted as a wood-clad biogas plant with a green-domed digester and small chimney near the centre; hydro 1.8 GW is a small run-of-river weir with spillway visible at the lower-right foreground edge. Time is 18:00 dusk on a scorching June evening — the sun sits low in the west, casting intense orange-golden light across the landscape, the sky above transitioning from deep warm blue at the zenith to vivid amber and copper near the horizon, completely cloudless. The air feels heavy and oppressive, with visible heat shimmer rising from the dry earth and the PV arrays. Vegetation is lush green but wilting slightly in the extreme heat, grass yellowed at the edges. The cooling tower plumes spread and flatten in the still, hot air. The atmosphere is dense and hazy with a sense of thermal weight reflecting the high electricity price. Style: 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 palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from the low sun, atmospheric depth with layers of haze. Each technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: three-blade rotor nacelles on lattice towers, hyperbolic concrete cooling tower geometry, aluminium PV module frames with visible cell patterns, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene conveys the grandeur and tension of an industrial landscape straining under summer's peak. No text, no labels.