Brown coal, solar, and onshore wind lead generation as high heat drives 56.3 GW demand requiring significant imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 19%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 28%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 9%
Brown coal 24%
59%
Renewable share
8.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
11.9 GW
Solar
42.8 GW
Total generation
13.5 GW
Net import
162.3 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
29.2°C / 13 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
29.0% / 338.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
303
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 10.1 GW dominates the left quarter of the scene as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white-grey steam plumes rising into the sky, surrounded by open-pit lignite mine terraces; solar 11.9 GW fills the centre-right foreground as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon panels angled toward the low western sun, glinting with golden reflections; onshore wind 8.0 GW occupies the right third as dozens of tall three-blade turbines on lattice and tubular towers, blades turning gently in moderate breeze across rolling green hills; natural gas 3.8 GW appears as a pair of compact CCGT plants with slim exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer, positioned behind the solar fields; hard coal 3.7 GW sits beside the brown coal complex as a smaller power station with rectangular chimneys and conveyor belts; biomass 3.8 GW is rendered as a mid-sized industrial plant with a rounded wood-chip silo and modest steam output at the far left edge; hydro 1.1 GW appears as a small concrete dam and reservoir nestled in a wooded valley in the distant background; offshore wind 0.3 GW is barely visible as tiny turbines on the far horizon line. The sky is a dusk scene at 18:00 in late July — the sun is low in the west, casting long amber-orange light across the landscape, with the upper sky transitioning from warm blue to soft apricot near the horizon; cloud cover is sparse at 29%, with a few cumulus clouds tinged pink and gold. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, thick summer heat radiating from the earth, a faint yellowish haze suggesting high temperature of 29°C and elevated electricity prices. Lush dark-green summer vegetation, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, dry golden grass at field edges. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour palette, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro from the low sun, atmospheric perspective with hazy distant hills — yet every piece of energy infrastructure is painted with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles, three-blade rotors, PV cell grid patterns, cooling tower parabolic geometry, CCGT exhaust stacks. No text, no labels.