Solar leads at 19.9 GW but 12.4 GW net imports needed as evening demand outpaces declining renewables.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 49%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 4%
Brown coal 17%
74%
Renewable share
5.0 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
19.9 GW
Solar
40.8 GW
Total generation
12.4 GW
Net import
154.7 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
23.5°C / 9 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 425.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
196
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 19.9 GW dominates the right half of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, angled toward a low western sun; brown coal 6.9 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible below; biomass 3.9 GW appears as several mid-sized biomass plants with rounded storage silos and modest chimneys emitting thin pale smoke, positioned left of centre; wind onshore 2.8 GW shown as a line of five three-blade turbines on lattice towers on a distant ridge, blades turning very slowly in light breeze; wind offshore 2.3 GW visible as a faint row of offshore turbines on the far horizon beyond a river; natural gas 2.2 GW rendered as two compact CCGT units with tall single exhaust stacks and clean steel housings, centre-left; hard coal 1.7 GW depicted as a single traditional coal plant with a tall brick chimney and coal yard, behind the gas units; hydro 1.1 GW shown as a small weir and powerhouse on a stream in the foreground. The sky is clear, zero cloud cover, with the sun about 15 degrees above the western horizon casting long golden-orange light and deep shadows — the warm amber tones of 18:00 midsummer dusk beginning. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a hazy, heat-shimmered quality reflecting high electricity prices. Temperature 23.5°C: lush green deciduous trees in full summer foliage, dry golden grasses in meadows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to hazy blue-grey distances — but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell grid pattern, every cooling tower's concrete curvature. No text, no labels.