Solar leads at 24.7 GW under clear skies, but calm winds force heavy coal and gas dispatch plus 1.4 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 55%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 16%
70%
Renewable share
1.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.7 GW
Solar
45.2 GW
Total generation
1.5 GW
Net import
115.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.3°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
5.0% / 89.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
218
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.7 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer hillsides, angled south, glinting under bright morning sunshine. Brown coal 7.3 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with three hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the still air. Hard coal 2.8 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single tall brick chimney and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel, positioned behind the lignite station. Natural gas 3.6 GW is rendered as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with sleek exhaust stacks and a modest heat recovery steam generator, situated between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 4.0 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip power station with a conical fuel silo and a short smokestack emitting thin grey vapour, nestled among trees at the left edge. Hydro 1.2 GW is depicted as a small run-of-river weir with a low concrete dam and turbine house beside a calm river flowing through the foreground. Wind onshore 1.5 GW is shown as a handful of distant three-blade turbines on a far ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air. The sky is almost entirely clear with only faint wisps of cirrus, a deep summer blue, but the atmosphere has a slightly heavy, hazy quality suggesting warmth and elevated prices. Morning light from the east casts long shadows westward across the landscape. Lush green deciduous trees and meadow grass indicate mid-July at 15°C. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective—yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.