Extreme heat drives 56 GW demand; 8.9 GW solar and 5.2 GW brown coal lead generation amid ~29 GW net imports.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 33%
Biomass 14%
Hydro 7%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 19%
72%
Renewable share
5.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
8.9 GW
Solar
27.3 GW
Total generation
-28.8 GW
Net import
243.5 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
34.6°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0.0% / 281.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
210
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 8.9 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across scorched golden-brown farmland, angled toward a low western sun. Brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky, beside conveyor belts and open-pit excavation terraces. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a medium-scale industrial plant with cylindrical digesters and a modest smokestack, nestled among wilting trees in the centre-left. Wind onshore 3.3 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the centre-background, blades barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.9 GW appears as a concrete dam with thin spillway in the far centre-left distance. Wind offshore 1.9 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy horizon line at the far right. Hard coal 1.3 GW shows as a single coal plant with rectangular cooling tower and coal stockpile at the far left. Natural gas 1.0 GW is a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack tucked behind the brown coal complex. Time is 19:00 on a late June evening: the sun is very low on the western horizon, casting long amber-orange shadows across the landscape; the sky above transitions from deep gold and copper near the horizon to a pale, washed-out blue overhead, with zero clouds. The atmosphere is heavy, oppressive, and hazy from extreme 34.6°C heat — shimmering heat distortion visible above the solar panels and asphalt. Vegetation is parched summer grass, dry and golden. The overall mood is tense and sweltering, the air thick. 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 of amber, copper, and ochre, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro lighting. Each energy technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy. No text, no labels.