Solar dominates at 20 GW under clear skies, but 8.7 GW net imports and significant coal and gas fill the consumption gap.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 11%
Wind offshore 6%
Solar 42%
Biomass 9%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 10%
Hard coal 6%
Brown coal 14%
71%
Renewable share
8.3 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
20.0 GW
Solar
48.2 GW
Total generation
8.7 GW
Net import
145.6 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.4°C / 1 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 96.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
204
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 20.0 GW dominates the right half of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across gentle rolling hills, their surfaces gleaming under bright morning sunlight from the east. Brown coal 6.6 GW occupies the left foreground as a cluster of massive hyperbolic concrete cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes into the clear sky, with conveyor belts carrying lignite visible at their base. Wind onshore 5.5 GW appears as a line of tall three-blade turbines with white tubular towers on a distant ridge in the centre-left, their blades nearly still in the calm air. Natural gas 4.7 GW is rendered as a pair of compact CCGT power stations with slender exhaust stacks and smaller rectangular cooling units in the centre of the composition. Hard coal 2.9 GW appears as a single traditional coal plant with a tall square chimney and coal stockyard to the left of the gas units. Wind offshore 2.8 GW is visible as a faint row of turbines on the far horizon line suggesting a distant sea. Biomass 4.1 GW is depicted as a mid-sized industrial facility with a rounded silo and a modest smokestack near the right-centre, surrounded by stacked timber. Hydro 1.6 GW appears as a small concrete dam with water flowing through a narrow river valley in the far right background. The sky is completely clear, deep summer blue with zero clouds, and the low eastern sun casts long golden shadows across the landscape. Despite the brilliant sunshine, the atmosphere feels heavy and dense — a subtle amber haze sits near the horizon suggesting the tension of a high-price morning. The temperature of 13.4°C is conveyed through lush but slightly dew-laden green August vegetation, mature deciduous trees in full leaf, and wildflower meadows. Overhead high-voltage transmission lines on lattice pylons cross the scene, symbolizing the flow of imports. Rendered as a highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen — rich saturated colour, visible impasto brushwork, atmospheric depth and luminous golden-hour light — but with meticulous technical accuracy in every engineering detail of turbines, panels, cooling towers, and smokestacks. No text, no labels.