Solar leads at 18.5 GW with wind at 13.4 GW, but 5.2 GW net imports fill the gap at elevated prices.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 16%
Wind offshore 10%
Solar 36%
Biomass 8%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 5%
Brown coal 13%
72%
Renewable share
13.4 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
18.5 GW
Solar
51.4 GW
Total generation
5.1 GW
Net import
139.2 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
19.8°C / 6 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
15.0% / 74.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
191
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Brown coal 6.6 GW dominates the far left as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers with thick white steam plumes rising into a mostly clear morning sky, surrounded by open-pit mining terraces with exposed lignite seams. Natural gas 5.1 GW occupies the left-centre as two compact CCGT power plants with tall silver exhaust stacks and thin heat shimmer. Hard coal 2.6 GW appears as a smaller coal-fired station with a single rectangular stack and conveyor belts of dark fuel, set just right of centre-left. Solar 18.5 GW fills the entire right half and background of the scene — vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gently rolling farmland, their blue-black surfaces gleaming under brilliant morning sunlight from the east, casting long westward shadows. Wind onshore 8.0 GW is represented by dozens of tall three-blade turbines with white nacelles and lattice-section towers scattered across green hills behind the solar arrays, blades turning slowly in light wind. Wind offshore 5.4 GW appears as a distant row of larger turbines visible on the far horizon, hazy and pale against the sky. Biomass 4.0 GW sits as a modest wood-chip-fed generating station with a green-roofed industrial building and a low steam stack near the centre of the composition. Hydro 1.3 GW is a small run-of-river weir with cascading water in the lower-right foreground along a winding river. The sky is 85% clear with only wispy high cirrus clouds, bright August morning sunlight from the east-southeast casting warm golden tones across the landscape. Temperature is mild at 19.8°C; vegetation is lush summer green with full canopies on deciduous trees. The atmosphere carries a subtle oppressive weight — a faint industrial haze and warm tonal density suggesting high electricity prices. Overhead, high-voltage transmission lines on steel lattice pylons cross the scene, some leading toward the horizon suggesting cross-border imports. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial realism — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth, meticulous engineering accuracy on all turbines, panels, cooling towers, and stacks. No text, no labels.