Solar leads at 20 GW but calm winds and high demand drive 12 GW net imports and steep prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 3%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 42%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 12%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 23%
58%
Renewable share
1.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.2 GW
Solar
47.8 GW
Total generation
12.4 GW
Net import
158.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
16.1°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
29.0% / 128.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
305
gCO₂/kWh
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Solar 20.2 GW dominates the right half of the composition as vast expanses of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling fields, glinting under a bright mid-morning sun with scattered cumulus clouds covering roughly a third of the sky. Brown coal 10.8 GW occupies the left quarter as a massive lignite power station complex with four towering hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes that drift lazily in the still air. Natural gas 5.5 GW appears center-left as two compact modern CCGT blocks with slender exhaust stacks releasing thin transparent heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.0 GW sits behind the gas plant as a pair of older rectangular boiler houses with a single tall chimney trailing grey smoke. Biomass 3.9 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial facility with a domed digester and wood-chip storage silos near the center. Hydro 1.5 GW appears as a modest concrete dam with a reservoir visible in a valley in the middle distance. Wind onshore 1.6 GW is depicted as a small cluster of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, their rotors nearly motionless in the calm air. Wind offshore 0.4 GW is a faint suggestion of two turbines on the far horizon line. The atmosphere is subtly oppressive despite the sunshine — a warm haze hangs over the industrial foreground, suggesting the high electricity price. Vegetation is lush midsummer green with full-canopy deciduous trees, wildflowers, and tall grass. Temperature around 16°C gives a freshness to the early light. The lighting is full bright morning daylight from the east-southeast, casting long but defined shadows. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — with rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, deep atmospheric perspective, meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower curve, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.