Solar leads at 24.9 GW under clear skies; brown coal and gas fill the gap as Germany net-imports 5.8 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 45%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 17%
67%
Renewable share
6.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.9 GW
Solar
55.4 GW
Total generation
-5.8 GW
Net import
119.8 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 139.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
239
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.9 GW dominates the right half and centre-right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across flat agricultural land, angled south-southeast, glinting intensely under full morning sunlight. Brown coal 9.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into still air, adjacent to open-pit lignite mines with terraced brown earth. Natural gas 4.8 GW appears centre-left as two compact CCGT power stations with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.1 GW sits behind the gas plants as a darker, older station with conveyor belts and a coal stockpile. Wind onshore 4.0 GW is represented by a sparse line of six three-blade turbines on a low ridge in the mid-distance, their rotors barely turning in the calm air. Wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as faint silhouettes of turbines on the far horizon line. Biomass 4.0 GW shows as a modest wood-chip-fired plant with a green-roofed warehouse near the solar fields. Hydro 1.6 GW is a small run-of-river weir with a powerhouse visible along a river in the foreground. The sky is completely clear, deep blue, zero clouds, warm June morning light casting long shadows from the west-northwest at 08:00. Temperature 22.4°C is reflected in lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in meadows between solar arrays. The atmosphere feels subtly heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky — a faint haze near the horizon and warm golden-amber tones suggesting expensive, tight market conditions. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. No text, no labels.