Solar at 19.9 GW and wind at 11.8 GW dominate, but 7.4 GW net imports cover a hot evening's demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 21%
Wind offshore 8%
Solar 48%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 8%
88%
Renewable share
11.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
41.5 GW
Total generation
7.4 GW
Net import
93.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.0°C / 15 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 405.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
86
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.9 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across golden-green summer farmland, angled toward the still-intense western sun. Wind onshore 8.7 GW fills the centre-left background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning moderately in the warm breeze across rolling hills. Wind offshore 3.1 GW appears on the far left horizon as a line of turbines rising from a hazy strip of distant sea. Biomass 3.6 GW is rendered as a cluster of mid-sized industrial buildings with wood-chip storage silos and low exhaust stacks emitting thin white vapour, nestled among trees at centre-left. Brown coal 3.2 GW occupies the far left foreground as two massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising against the sky, adjacent to a lignite conveyor and excavation pit. Natural gas 1.4 GW appears as a single compact CCGT plant with a slim exhaust stack and modest heat shimmer, tucked beside the cooling towers. Hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small concrete dam with spillway visible in a valley in the mid-ground. Hard coal 0.3 GW is a single small smokestack barely visible behind the brown coal facility. The lighting is late dusk at 18:00 in July: the sun is still above the horizon but low in the west, casting long warm golden-orange light across the landscape, with deep blue sky overhead fading to amber near the horizon. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive — the hot 29°C air creates visible heat shimmer above the solar panels and parched summer fields. Lush but heat-stressed green vegetation, mature deciduous trees in full leaf. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with haze near the horizon — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology. No text, no labels.