Solar at 28 GW leads a 75% renewable mix, with coal and gas filling residual load on a warm summer afternoon.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 12%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 52%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 11%
75%
Renewable share
7.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
28.0 GW
Solar
54.3 GW
Total generation
3.4 GW
Net import
99.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
25.1°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
13.0% / 477.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
177
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 28.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the scene as vast rolling fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching to the horizon, glinting intensely under full afternoon sunlight; brown coal 6.0 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes drifting lazily in light wind; wind onshore 6.7 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice towers turning slowly on gentle summer breeze across green hills behind the solar fields; natural gas 3.9 GW sits as a pair of compact CCGT power blocks with slender exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer, positioned at mid-left; hard coal 3.7 GW appears as a single large coal plant with rectangular boiler house and a single tall chimney emitting faint grey smoke, adjacent to the brown coal complex; biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad biomass plant with a squat stack and small wood-chip storage yard near the right edge; hydro 2.0 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway visible in a forested valley at the far right background; wind offshore 0.4 GW is barely hinted at as tiny turbine silhouettes on the extreme distant horizon. The sky is brilliant summer blue at 16:00 with only sparse wispy cirrus clouds (13% cover), the sun high and blazing from the southwest, casting sharp defined shadows; the atmosphere feels warm and slightly oppressive, a faint golden haze near the horizon suggesting heat and the elevated electricity price; lush green midsummer vegetation — deciduous trees in full canopy, meadow grasses — fills the spaces between infrastructure; the landscape is gently undulating central German terrain. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous light treatment — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine blade, panel frame, cooling tower curvature, and exhaust stack. A masterwork industrial landscape painting. No text, no labels.