Solar leads at 16.2 GW but 34°C heat drives 57 GW demand, requiring 13 GW net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 17%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 37%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 12%
75%
Renewable share
11.9 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
16.2 GW
Solar
44.0 GW
Total generation
13.0 GW
Net import
169.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
34.2°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
49.0% / 308.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
180
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 16.2 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across golden-brown summer farmland, their surfaces catching warm late-afternoon light; wind onshore 7.3 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white lattice towers on a distant ridge, blades turning almost imperceptibly in negligible wind; wind offshore 4.6 GW is suggested by a row of turbines on the far horizon beyond a hazy river valley; brown coal 5.5 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes, with conveyor belts of dark lignite visible at the plant base; hard coal 2.7 GW sits just behind as a smaller coal-fired station with a tall chimney and dark smoke; natural gas 2.9 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with gleaming cylindrical exhaust stacks and a single thin heat-shimmer exhaust plume; biomass 3.7 GW is rendered as a mid-ground wood-chip power plant with conical fuel silos and a modest smokestack; hydro 1.2 GW shows as a small dam and powerhouse nestled in a green valley at the far left. The sky is a heavy, oppressive summer evening sky at 18:00 — the sun low in the west, half-veiled by hazy alto-cumulus clouds covering roughly half the sky, the light golden-orange and thick with heat shimmer. The atmosphere is sultry, the air visibly shimmering over the parched landscape; dried grass, wilted leaves on scattered trees, and cracked earth convey the 34°C heat wave. Transmission lines with high-voltage pylons cross the middle ground, symbolizing the grid under strain. Painted in the style of a highly detailed 19th-century German Romantic oil painting — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth — yet with meticulous engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, every PV cell, every cooling tower curve. No text, no labels.