Solar leads at 14 GW but weak wind and extreme heat drive 17 GW net imports and elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 15%
Wind offshore 4%
Solar 35%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 8%
Hard coal 11%
Brown coal 14%
68%
Renewable share
7.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.0 GW
Solar
39.4 GW
Total generation
17.0 GW
Net import
175.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
33.2°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
68.0% / 269.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
230
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 14.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels stretching across parched summer farmland, angled toward a hazy, partially clouded sky. Brown coal 5.4 GW occupies the left foreground as three massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into heavy air. Hard coal 4.2 GW appears just behind as a cluster of dark industrial boiler houses with tall square stacks trailing grey smoke. Wind onshore 6.0 GW is rendered as a scattered line of three-blade turbines on gentle hills in the centre-left middle distance, their rotors barely turning in the still air. Natural gas 3.1 GW sits centre-right as two compact CCGT plants with polished single exhaust stacks emitting thin translucent exhaust. Biomass 3.9 GW appears as a mid-sized wood-clad biomass plant with a modest chimney near the coal complex. Wind offshore 1.7 GW is suggested by a distant cluster of white turbines visible on a faint horizon line at far left. Hydro 1.2 GW is a small concrete dam and spillway tucked into a valley at far right. The sky is dusk at 18:00 Berlin time: the sun is low in the west, casting a heavy amber-orange glow through 68% cloud cover, the upper sky deepening to warm grey-blue. The atmosphere feels oppressive and weighty — shimmering heat haze rises from the dry yellowed grass, reflecting the 33.2 °C temperature and the high 175.5 EUR/MWh price. Vegetation is midsummer: mature green deciduous trees with some browning from heat stress, golden wheat stubble in harvested fields. High-voltage transmission pylons recede into the haze, symbolising the massive import flows. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth — rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy for every turbine nacelle, panel frame, cooling tower, and stack. No text, no labels.