Solar at 38 GW leads under clear skies, but 13.8 GW of coal and low wind keep thermal units online.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 0%
Solar 59%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 6%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 15%
73%
Renewable share
3.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
38.0 GW
Solar
64.0 GW
Total generation
+2.4 GW
Net export
111.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
21.7°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
2.0% / 422.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
201
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 38.0 GW dominates the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across the entire foreground and middle ground, angled south, reflecting brilliant midmorning sun; brown coal 9.8 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 a sprawling lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; hard coal 4.0 GW appears behind the brown coal as a smaller set of rectangular boiler houses with tall chimneys trailing thinner smoke; natural gas 3.7 GW sits in the centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and wood-chip storage yard, a single moderate stack with pale vapour; wind onshore 3.1 GW appears as a sparse line of five three-blade turbines on a gentle ridge in the right background, blades turning slowly in light wind; hydro 1.4 GW is a small concrete run-of-river weir visible at a river in the far right middle distance; wind offshore 0.3 GW is barely suggested as two tiny turbines on a hazy horizon line. The sky is almost entirely clear with only the faintest wisp of cloud at 2% cover, deep blue overhead, the sun high and intense at a 10:00 AM summer angle casting short shadows, the light warm and golden-white. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the clarity, with a faint heat haze shimmering above the PV fields, reflecting the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green — tall grasses, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, wildflowers at panel edges. The landscape is gently rolling central German terrain. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct nacelle shapes, lattice towers, panel wiring, cooling tower parabolic curves, industrial piping. No text, no labels.