Strong onshore wind and late solar dominate at 88.5% renewables, with 4.0 GW net imports covering the evening demand gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 41%
Wind offshore 9%
Solar 28%
Biomass 7%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 4%
Hard coal 1%
Brown coal 6%
88%
Renewable share
26.2 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
14.7 GW
Solar
52.0 GW
Total generation
4.0 GW
Net import
114.5 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
24.2°C / 21 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
67.0% / 113.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
80
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Wind onshore 21.3 GW dominates the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching across the right two-thirds of the composition, their rotors spinning briskly in strong wind, set across rolling green summer fields. Wind offshore 4.9 GW appears as a distant line of turbines on the far-right horizon above a faint strip of sea. Solar 14.7 GW fills the centre-left foreground as extensive arrays of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon PV panels angled toward the low western sun, catching warm amber light. Biomass 3.7 GW appears as a medium-sized wood-chip power plant with a modest smokestack and timber storage yard in the left-centre midground. Brown coal 3.3 GW occupies the left background as two hyperbolic concrete cooling towers releasing thick white steam plumes that drift across the sky. Natural gas 2.2 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with a single gleaming exhaust stack and visible heat shimmer, positioned just left of centre. Hydro 1.4 GW appears as a small concrete dam with spillway set into a wooded hillside in the far left. Hard coal 0.5 GW is a barely visible small conventional stack behind the brown coal towers, nearly lost in the steam. The sky is an August early-evening dusk scene at 18:00: the sun is low on the western horizon casting a rich orange-red glow along the bottom quarter of the sky, while the upper sky transitions from warm gold to deepening blue-grey, with 67% cloud cover rendered as heavy cumulus banks lit dramatically from below in copper and violet tones, creating an oppressive yet majestic atmosphere reflecting the elevated 114.5 EUR/MWh price. Temperature 24°C is conveyed through lush deep-green summer vegetation, warm haze over the fields, and golden late light on the grass. Wind at 21 km/h bends the meadow grasses and ripples through tree canopies. Highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — Caspar David Friedrich meets industrial sublime — with rich impasto brushwork, atmospheric aerial perspective, luminous colour transitions in the sky, and meticulous engineering detail on every turbine nacelle, PV cell pattern, cooling tower texture, and exhaust stack. No text, no labels.