Solar leads at 22.2 GW but 9.6 GW net imports needed as low wind and strong demand lift prices to 145 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 8%
Wind offshore 3%
Solar 44%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 16%
66%
Renewable share
5.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
22.2 GW
Solar
50.0 GW
Total generation
9.6 GW
Net import
145.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
12.1°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
34.0% / 122.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
243
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 22.2 GW dominates the right half and centre-right of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their blue-black surfaces angled toward a morning sun breaking through scattered cumulus clouds. Brown coal 8.2 GW occupies the left quarter as three massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Natural gas 4.7 GW appears in the centre-left as two compact CCGT power blocks with tall slender exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 4.1 GW sits behind the gas plant as a single large conventional power station with a rectangular chimney and coal bunker. Wind onshore 4.1 GW is represented by a cluster of six three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a distant ridge to the far left, their blades barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 1.5 GW is suggested by tiny turbines on the hazy horizon line. Biomass 4.1 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-chip facility with a modest smokestack near the centre. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small dam structure with a thin waterfall visible in a valley fold at far right. The lighting is full morning daylight at 08:00 in July — warm golden-white sun at roughly 30 degrees elevation from the east, casting long but brightening shadows across the landscape. The sky is 34% covered with scattered fair-weather cumulus clouds, otherwise blue. The atmosphere feels heavy and slightly oppressive despite the sunshine, with a subtle haze pressing down — reflecting the high electricity price. Temperature is a cool 12°C for midsummer, so vegetation is lush deep green but with morning dew still visible on grass. The scene is rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible confident brushwork, strong atmospheric depth and aerial perspective, dramatic compositional balance between industrial infrastructure and natural terrain. Every technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with three-blade rotors, lattice or tubular towers, PV panel grid patterns, hyperbolic cooling tower concrete ribbing, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.