Solar leads at 27.7 GW but 8 GW net imports are needed as wind stays weak and thermal plants hold firm.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 51%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 14%
69%
Renewable share
4.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.7 GW
Solar
53.8 GW
Total generation
8.0 GW
Net import
119.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
20.5°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
53.0% / 366.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
217
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.7 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green hills, catching direct sunlight filtered through partial cloud cover. Brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the sky, with conveyor belts and open-pit mine terraces visible at their base. Natural gas 4.9 GW appears in the centre-left as a pair of compact combined-cycle gas turbine plants with tall slender exhaust stacks and modest heat-shimmer exhaust. Hard coal 3.9 GW sits behind the gas plants as a traditional power station with a single large smokestack and coal stockpiles. Biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a medium-sized plant with rounded silos and wood-chip storage near the left foreground. Wind onshore 3.6 GW appears as a modest line of five three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors turning slowly in light wind. Hydro 1.8 GW is visible as a small dam and spillway in a valley at the far right. Wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely hinted at as tiny turbine silhouettes on the far horizon line. The sky is a midsummer late-morning sky at 11:00, bright and warm with the sun high, but roughly half-covered by cumulus clouds drifting across, creating patches of shadow and light across the landscape. The atmosphere feels slightly heavy and oppressive, with a warm humid haze along the horizon suggesting elevated energy prices. Temperature is mild at 20.5°C; vegetation is lush summer green — meadows, deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape masters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro from the partial clouds, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and smokestack. The composition balances industrial sublimity with pastoral beauty. No text, no labels.