Solar at 24.7 GW leads a cloudless July morning, with brown coal and wind providing steady support.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 9%
Wind offshore 7%
Solar 55%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 2%
Brown coal 11%
82%
Renewable share
7.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
24.7 GW
Solar
44.9 GW
Total generation
+0.3 GW
Net export
62.1 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.9°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 132.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
130
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 24.7 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the composition as vast fields of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle green summer hillsides, their aluminium frames catching bright morning light from the east; brown coal 5.2 GW occupies the left background as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting white steam plumes drifting leftward in still air, with conveyor belts and open-pit terraces visible; wind onshore 4.2 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines in the mid-ground, rotors barely turning in the calm air; wind offshore 3.0 GW is suggested by distant turbines on a hazy northern horizon line; biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber yard and a single smokestack amid trees in the centre-left; natural gas 2.0 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a tall single exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer near the brown coal complex; hydro 1.1 GW is a small concrete dam with a reservoir glinting in a valley at far left; hard coal 0.8 GW is a smaller power station with a single square stack tucked behind the gas plant. Time of day is 08:00 in July — full bright morning daylight streaming from a low eastern sun, completely clear blue sky with zero cloud cover, long golden-hour shadows still stretching westward across the landscape. Temperature 15.9°C gives the air a fresh, slightly cool luminosity with faint morning mist lingering in the valleys. Lush midsummer vegetation — deep green deciduous trees in full leaf, meadow grasses, wildflowers. The atmosphere is calm and open, not oppressive, reflecting moderate electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, masterful atmospheric perspective and depth, warm golden-green palette — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, PV panel frame, cooling tower hyperbolic curve, and industrial detail. No text, no labels, no people prominent.