Solar leads at 39.5 GW under partial cloud; low wind and firm coal keep thermal plant running on a mild July morning.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 61%
Biomass 6%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 12%
75%
Renewable share
3.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
39.5 GW
Solar
65.2 GW
Total generation
+5.5 GW
Net export
102.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
15.2°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
71.0% / 209.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
176
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 39.5 GW dominates the scene as an immense expanse of crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling central German farmland, occupying roughly 60% of the canvas from centre to right; brown coal 8.1 GW appears at the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into overcast sky; natural gas 5.9 GW sits left-of-centre as compact combined-cycle gas turbine blocks with tall single exhaust stacks emitting thin heat shimmer; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power station with a tall rectangular boiler building and conveyor belts feeding fuel; wind onshore 3.3 GW appears as a sparse handful of three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, rotors nearly still in the calm air; hard coal 2.5 GW is a smaller coal plant with a single squat stack and coal bunker beside the lignite complex; hydro 1.1 GW is a small run-of-river weir and powerhouse visible along a river winding through the middle ground; wind offshore 0.6 GW is suggested by a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line. Mid-morning daylight at 10:00, July: the sun is moderately high but filtered through 71% stratiform cloud cover, producing bright but diffuse, shadowless illumination with occasional brighter patches where thinner cloud lets direct light through at 209 W/m². The atmosphere feels warm but slightly oppressive given the high electricity price — a faint haze hangs over the thermal plants, the sky a milky white-grey with hints of blue struggling through. Vegetation is lush midsummer green, meadow grasses tall, wildflowers dotting field margins, deciduous trees in full heavy leaf. Temperature is a cool 15°C for July, suggested by a slight freshness in the air and dew still lingering on panel surfaces. Wind is virtually absent at 1.3 km/h — flags droop, grass is motionless, turbine blades frozen. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich layered colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a hazy horizon, dramatic scale contrasting vast industrial structures against pastoral landscape. Meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with correct proportions, aluminium-framed PV modules with visible cell patterns, hyperbolic concrete cooling towers with realistic condensation plumes. No text, no labels, no human figures.