Solar at 27.6 GW leads a 75.5% renewable mix, but 9.0 GW brown coal underpins the afternoon balance.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 49%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 16%
76%
Renewable share
9.8 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
27.6 GW
Solar
56.1 GW
Total generation
+0.6 GW
Net export
114.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.0°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
67.0% / 89.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
185
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 27.6 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling farmland, angled toward a hazy, partially overcast sky; brown coal 9.0 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the humid air, adjacent to conveyor belts feeding raw lignite; wind onshore 8.3 GW appears as a line of modern three-blade turbines on ridgelines in the mid-distance, blades barely turning in the light breeze; wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on a hazy horizon line above a distant coastal strip; biomass 3.5 GW sits as a mid-sized industrial plant with a timber yard and single smokestack emitting thin grey exhaust, nestled among trees at the centre-left; hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a coal-fired power station with rectangular cooling towers and a coal pile beside railway tracks in the left background; natural gas 2.1 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single tall exhaust stack and clean metallic surfaces, placed between the coal and biomass facilities; hydro 1.4 GW is a small dam and powerhouse visible along a river in the mid-ground. Time is 16:00 in July: full daylight but the sky is 67% covered by layered cumulus and alto-stratus clouds, muting the sunlight to a bright but diffuse silvery-white glare; patches of blue appear between clouds; the air looks warm and slightly hazy. Temperature is 24°C — lush green deciduous trees in full summer leaf, wildflowers in meadows, ripe crops. The elevated electricity price of 114.7 EUR/MWh is conveyed through a subtly oppressive, heavy atmosphere — the air thick with humidity and industrial steam, the sky pressing down. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich blended with industrial realism, rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective giving depth across kilometres, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's concrete texture. No text, no labels.