Solar and wind dominate at 76.5% renewables, but 9.9 GW of coal persists alongside a 97.5 EUR/MWh price.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 24%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 33%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 15%
76%
Renewable share
17.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.2 GW
Solar
52.3 GW
Total generation
+3.9 GW
Net export
97.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
18.1°C / 10 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
50.0% / 76.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
174
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 12.7 GW fills the right third of the scene as dozens of three-blade turbines on tall lattice towers stretching across green rolling hills; solar 17.2 GW dominates the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled toward the eastern morning sun; wind offshore 4.7 GW appears as a distant line of large turbines on the far-right horizon above a hazy sea edge; brown coal 7.7 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts feeding dark lignite into a sprawling plant; hard coal 2.2 GW sits as a smaller adjacent facility with narrower stacks and a dark coal pile; natural gas 2.4 GW appears as two compact CCGT units with slender single exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer; biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial plant with rounded digesters and a low wood-chip storage dome; hydro 1.3 GW is a small concrete dam visible in a valley at far left with white water cascading. The sky is July morning daylight at 08:00, sun low in the east casting long golden shadows, sky roughly half covered by cumulus clouds—patches of bright blue between soft white masses, direct light moderate. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the daylight, with a faint warm haze pressing down, reflecting the high electricity price. Summer vegetation is lush—deep green deciduous trees, wildflower meadows, ripe golden wheat fields bordering the solar arrays. Temperature is mild, no heat distortion. Moderate breeze bends tall grasses and turns all turbine rotors steadily. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters—rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, luminous atmospheric depth recalling Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen—but with meticulous engineering accuracy on every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid line, every cooling tower's parabolic concrete form. The composition balances the sublime beauty of the renewable landscape against the industrial gravity of coal infrastructure. No text, no labels.