Strong solar and heavy coal generation meet robust demand, with ~13.7 GW net imports needed under clear skies and weak wind.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 6%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 43%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 21%
61%
Renewable share
3.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.0 GW
Solar
47.1 GW
Total generation
13.7 GW
Net import
155.9 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
17.9°C / 8 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 142.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
284
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling green summer hillsides, catching brilliant morning sunlight. Brown coal 9.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, connected to sprawling open-pit mining terraces. Natural gas 4.7 GW appears in the centre-left as compact CCGT power plants with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits adjacent as a coal-fired station with rectangular mechanical draft cooling towers and conveyor belts carrying dark fuel. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded silo and wood-chip storage yard, modest steam rising. Wind onshore 2.9 GW appears as a sparse line of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning in the still air. Hydro 1.3 GW is shown as a small concrete dam with water cascading into a river in the middle distance. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is faintly visible as a few tiny turbines on a hazy far horizon suggesting the North Sea coast. The sky is completely clear, zero clouds, deep summer blue with the sun at a mid-morning angle from the east casting long warm shadows. Temperature 17.9°C: lush green midsummer vegetation, wildflowers, full-canopy deciduous trees. Despite the sunshine, the atmosphere feels heavy, dense, and slightly oppressive — a faint industrial haze hangs over the coal plants, conveying the tension of high electricity prices. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters like Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic scale contrasts between vast solar fields and towering coal infrastructure. Meticulous engineering accuracy on all technology details: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower hyperbolic geometry, CCGT stack design. No text, no labels.