Solar leads at 23 GW under clear skies; brown coal provides 8 GW baseload as wind remains nearly calm.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 7%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 50%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 5%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 17%
72%
Renewable share
5.1 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
23.0 GW
Solar
46.4 GW
Total generation
1.1 GW
Net import
83.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
10.9°C / 2 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 54.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
211
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 23.0 GW dominates the centre and right of the composition as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across rolling hills, catching bright morning sunlight from the east. Brown coal 8.0 GW occupies the left third as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into the sky, flanked by conveyor belts and lignite stockpiles. Wind onshore 3.0 GW appears as a sparse row of three-blade turbines on a distant ridge, rotors barely turning. Wind offshore 2.0 GW is glimpsed as tiny turbines on a far horizon line. Biomass 4.2 GW is rendered as a mid-ground industrial facility with cylindrical digesters and a low exhaust stack emitting thin vapour. Hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a single large power station with rectangular cooling towers and a tall chimney near the lignite complex. Natural gas 2.1 GW is a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack tucked between the coal plant and the solar fields. Hydro 1.0 GW appears as a small dam with spillway visible in a wooded valley at the far right edge. The sky is completely cloudless, a deep summer blue with full morning daylight at 08:00, the sun low in the east casting long golden shadows across the landscape. The air feels slightly heavy and oppressive despite the clear sky, with a faint haze near the thermal plants suggesting the moderately high electricity price. Temperature is cool for July at 10.9°C: the vegetation is lush midsummer green but with morning dew still glistening on grass. No wind motion in the trees or turbine blades. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting—rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous skies in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen, but with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel array, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.