Solar leads at 21.8 GW but light winds and 9.2 GW of brown coal keep prices elevated at 144 EUR/MWh.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 10%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 43%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 2%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 7%
Brown coal 18%
67%
Renewable share
7.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.8 GW
Solar
51.1 GW
Total generation
7.6 GW
Net import
144.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.3°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
45.0% / 62.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
240
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.8 GW dominates the right half of the canvas as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across gentle green hills, angled south, catching diffuse morning light through broken clouds. Brown coal 9.2 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white-grey steam plumes, with conveyor belts feeding lignite into a sprawling power station. Hard coal 3.7 GW appears just left of centre as a pair of tall rectangular boiler houses with dark chimneys trailing thinner smoke. Natural gas 3.9 GW sits centre-left as two compact CCGT units with slender silver exhaust stacks and modest heat shimmer. Wind onshore 5.3 GW is rendered as a line of tall three-blade turbines on a ridge in the middle distance, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Wind offshore 2.1 GW appears as faint silhouettes of offshore turbines on the far horizon above a thin strip of grey sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is a modest industrial plant with a rounded silo and woodchip storage yard near the centre. Hydro 1.0 GW is a small concrete dam with a thin cascade of water at the far right edge. Time is 08:00 in late July: full morning daylight, the sun low in the east casting long warm shadows, sky approximately 45% covered with cumulus clouds drifting slowly, patches of blue between them, light slightly hazy suggesting a heavy, oppressive atmosphere from the high electricity price. Temperature 13°C gives the vegetation a lush but cool-morning quality — dew on grass, mist lingering in low valleys. The landscape is central German rolling farmland with mixed deciduous forest at the edges. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painting — rich, layered colour, visible confident brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective with depth receding to a misty horizon — yet each energy technology is rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, lattice towers, cooling tower geometry, panel racking. No text, no labels.