Solar and brown coal lead domestic generation while 20 GW of net imports fill a large evening demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 32%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 20%
63%
Renewable share
6.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
12.9 GW
Solar
40.4 GW
Total generation
20.1 GW
Net import
134.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.0°C / 12 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
67.0% / 192.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
272
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 12.9 GW dominates the right third of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, still catching diffused late-evening light. Brown coal 7.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the sky, beside conveyor belts and open-pit terraces. Onshore wind 6.2 GW spans the centre-left as a line of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate breeze. Biomass 3.8 GW appears as a mid-ground industrial plant with a wood-chip storage dome and a single squat smokestack. Hard coal 3.7 GW sits near the brown coal complex as a smaller coal-fired station with a rectangular boiler house and twin stacks. Natural gas 3.5 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a horizontal heat recovery unit. Hydro 1.8 GW appears in the far background as a concrete dam set into a forested valley. Offshore wind 0.5 GW is barely visible on the far horizon as a few tiny turbines above a sliver of sea. The time is 18:00 in late June — dusk approaching but not yet arrived: the sun is low on the western horizon, casting a warm amber-orange glow across the lower sky, while the upper sky is muted and hazy with 67% cloud cover in layered alto-stratus formations. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a thick, humid summer haze presses down on the landscape. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, tall grasses and wildflowers in the foreground. The scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro. Each energy technology is depicted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, cooling tower parabolic profiles, PV panel grid patterns. No text, no labels.