Solar at 33 GW leads an 85% renewable hour, with brown coal and wind providing the balance.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 3%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 9%
85%
Renewable share
10.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
33.0 GW
Solar
56.0 GW
Total generation
+0.1 GW
Net export
93.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
27.9°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
27.0% / 489.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
108
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 33.0 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across the entire right half and centre of the composition, their blue-black surfaces glinting under intense afternoon sun. Brown coal 4.9 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising into the sky. Wind onshore 8.4 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles on lattice-and-tubular towers arrayed along a distant ridge behind the solar fields, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 1.6 GW is suggested by a handful of turbines visible on a hazy far horizon. Biomass 3.5 GW is rendered as a modest wood-clad industrial plant with a short stack and thin grey exhaust near the coal complex. Natural gas 1.9 GW appears as a compact combined-cycle gas turbine facility with a single tall exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer beside the cooling towers. Hard coal 1.4 GW is a smaller conventional power station with a single square chimney and coal conveyor visible at the far left edge. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small dam and spillway glimpsed in a valley in the distant background. The sky is mostly clear with 27% cloud cover — a few luminous cumulus clouds in a deep cerulean sky, strong direct sunlight casting hard shadows, the atmosphere heavy and hazy with summer heat at nearly 28 °C. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, meadow grasses slightly wilted in the heat. The elevated price of 93.3 EUR/MWh is conveyed through a faintly oppressive, humid atmospheric haze that thickens toward the horizon, giving the air a golden-amber weight. Lighting is full bright mid-afternoon from a high western sun, warm and intense. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's parabolic curve. The composition evokes a Caspar David Friedrich vastness married to industrial realism. No text, no labels.