Solar and wind dominate at 77% renewables, but 10.6 GW of coal and modest net imports meet remaining morning demand.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 27%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 34%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 13%
77%
Renewable share
19.5 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.7 GW
Solar
57.9 GW
Total generation
3.0 GW
Net import
131.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
14.1°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 86.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
171
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.7 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as vast arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across flat farmland, angled southeast and gleaming under full morning sun. Wind onshore 15.8 GW fills the upper-centre as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, their rotors turning gently in light wind, scattered across green rolling hills. Wind offshore 3.6 GW appears in the far background as a cluster of offshore turbines on the horizon line above a distant sliver of grey-blue sea. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left third as a massive lignite power station with three hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, connected to open-pit mine terraces in ochre and brown earth. Hard coal 3.0 GW sits just right of the lignite complex as a smaller coal-fired plant with a single tall rectangular stack and conveyor belts feeding dark coal heaps. Natural gas 2.8 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a slim exhaust stack and minimal vapour, positioned between the coal plants and the wind turbines. Biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of wood-chip-fed generating stations with modest cylindrical silos and low stacks amid deciduous trees in full green summer leaf. Hydro 1.2 GW appears as a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse on a winding river in the middle distance, water glinting. Time of day is 08:00 in July: full bright morning daylight streaming from the east-southeast, long golden shadows stretching westward across lush green summer meadows, completely clear blue sky with zero clouds. Temperature is mild at 14°C so there is faint morning mist in the river valley. The atmosphere carries a subtle heaviness — a warm, slightly hazy quality reflecting high electricity prices. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, with rich saturated colour, visible textured brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective and depth, dramatic luminosity — but with meticulous engineering accuracy for every technology: correct turbine nacelle shapes, three-blade rotor geometry, PV cell grid patterns, hyperbolic cooling tower curvature, CCGT exhaust geometry. The scene reads as a monumental panoramic masterwork of the German industrial-pastoral landscape. No text, no labels, no people in foreground.