Solar dominates at 20.3 GW under clear skies, but 9.6 GW net imports cover strong summer evening demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 2%
Solar 53%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
84%
Renewable share
6.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.3 GW
Solar
38.3 GW
Total generation
9.6 GW
Net import
120.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.4°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 435.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
116
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.3 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across golden-green summer farmland, angled toward the low western sun; wind onshore 6.3 GW appears as a line of slowly turning three-blade turbines on lattice towers along a gentle ridge in the centre-right; brown coal 3.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky; biomass 3.7 GW sits just right of the coal plant as a wood-chip-fed facility with a modest stack and wispy grey exhaust; natural gas 1.7 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT unit with a single tall exhaust stack and shimmering heat haze near the left-centre; hard coal 1.0 GW appears as a smaller traditional power station with a single stack behind the gas plant; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam with a narrow cascade in the far left background; wind offshore 0.6 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. The sky is a dusk transition at 18:00 in July: the sun sits low in the west, casting long orange-amber light across the landscape, the upper sky still a vivid cerulean blue shading to warm peach and copper near the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the beauty — a slight haze from the 27.4 °C heat and the high electricity price lending a tense, saturated quality to the light. Lush midsummer vegetation — tall grass, full-canopy deciduous trees — frames the foreground. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen: rich impasto colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV module frame, cooling tower ribbing, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.