Solar leads at 30.5 GW under extreme heat, but 7 GW net imports are needed as cooling demand pushes consumption to 54.3 GW.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 64%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 2%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 10%
85%
Renewable share
4.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
30.5 GW
Solar
47.3 GW
Total generation
-6.9 GW
Net import
111.0 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
35.6°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 552.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
112
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 30.5 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the right two-thirds of the composition, their glass surfaces catching fierce late-afternoon sun at a steep western angle. Brown coal 4.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with heavy white steam plumes rising into the hazy sky. Wind onshore 2.3 GW appears as a small group of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge at centre-left, their blades barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a row of turbines on a far horizon line to the right. Biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a modest wood-fired plant with a green-tinged smokestack in the middle ground. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a small concrete run-of-river weir with a glinting spillway in the lower-left foreground. Hard coal 1.2 GW shows as a single dark industrial boiler house with a tall rectangular chimney beside the cooling towers. Natural gas 1.1 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single polished exhaust stack near the coal plant. The sky is dusk-transitional: an intensely orange-red glow along the low western horizon, the upper sky deepening from amber to a heated, oppressive bruised violet-blue. The atmosphere is thick and hazy with heat shimmer. Vegetation is summer-lush but visibly wilted — dry yellowing grass and stressed deciduous trees under extreme 35 °C heat. The air feels heavy and still, dust motes visible in the slanting golden light. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting with rich impasto brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth, dramatic Caspar David Friedrich-scale grandeur, but with meticulous technical accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.