Solar leads at 17.4 GW with strong wind support, but a 12.1 GW import need drives elevated evening prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 22%
Wind offshore 5%
Solar 38%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 14%
77%
Renewable share
12.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
17.4 GW
Solar
45.4 GW
Total generation
12.1 GW
Net import
135.4 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
22.1°C / 14 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
64.0% / 258.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
172
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 17.4 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling green summer farmland, angled to catch fading golden light; wind onshore 9.9 GW fills the centre-right background as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning moderately; wind offshore 2.4 GW appears as a distant cluster of turbines on the far horizon above a faintly visible northern sea; brown coal 6.4 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising heavily into the sky, beside a sprawling lignite plant with conveyor belts and coal bunkers; biomass 3.8 GW sits centre-left as a wood-chip-fed industrial plant with a modest stack and thin grey exhaust; natural gas 2.1 GW appears as a compact modern CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and clean lines, positioned between the coal and biomass plants; hard coal 2.0 GW is a secondary conventional power station with a rectangular boiler house and single smaller cooling tower, adjacent to the brown coal complex; hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam and penstock visible in a green valley in the middle distance. TIME AND ATMOSPHERE: 18:00 Berlin summer dusk — the sun is low on the western horizon, casting a warm orange-amber glow across the lower third of the sky, while the upper sky transitions from pale blue to deeper blue-grey; 64% cloud cover creates dramatic broken cumulus clouds lit orange and pink from beneath. The air feels heavy and slightly oppressive, hinting at the high electricity price — a faint industrial haze hangs between the cooling towers and turbines. Lush green summer vegetation, tall grass, wildflowers along field edges, deciduous trees in full dark-green leaf. Style: 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 impasto brushwork, masterful atmospheric depth and chiaroscuro, meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, every PV panel frame, every cooling tower's parabolic curve and steam texture. The scene conveys the sublime tension between industrial might and pastoral beauty. No text, no labels, no people.