Solar leads at 21.8 GW under clear skies, but weak wind forces heavy coal dispatch and modest net imports.
Generation mix
Wind onshore 5%
Wind offshore 1%
Solar 50%
Biomass 10%
Hydro 3%
Natural gas 7%
Hard coal 8%
Brown coal 17%
68%
Renewable share
2.6 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
21.8 GW
Solar
43.7 GW
Total generation
1.6 GW
Net import
115.0 EUR/MWh
Day-ahead price
11.7°C / 4 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E) · surface estimate from 100 m wind
0.0% / 90.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
232
gCO₂/kWh
Image prompt
Solar 21.8 GW dominates the right half and centre of the scene as vast fields of aluminium-framed crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels stretching across rolling farmland, angled toward a brilliant morning sun low in the east. Brown coal 7.6 GW occupies the left quarter as a cluster of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting thick white steam plumes rising vertically into the still air, with conveyor belts carrying dark lignite visible at their base. Hard coal 3.3 GW appears just left of centre as a smaller coal-fired power station with rectangular chimneys and a grey coal stockpile. Natural gas 2.9 GW is rendered as a compact CCGT plant with gleaming steel exhaust stacks and a single slim vapour trail, positioned between the coal complex and the solar fields. Biomass 4.2 GW appears as two mid-sized industrial plants with cylindrical silos and short stacks releasing thin wisps of smoke, set among green fields in the middle distance. Hydro 1.3 GW is shown as a small dam with spillway in a forested valley in the far background. Wind onshore 2.1 GW and offshore 0.4 GW are represented by a sparse line of tall three-blade turbines on distant ridgelines, their rotors nearly motionless in the still air. The sky is completely cloudless, deep cerulean blue, with full August morning daylight casting long westward shadows. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive despite the sunshine, with a slight yellowish haze near the horizon suggesting high prices and thermal stress. The temperature is mild — green summer vegetation, meadow grasses, mature crops. Style: 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 confident brushwork, dramatic atmospheric depth and luminous light effects — but with meticulous modern engineering accuracy in every turbine nacelle, panel frame, and cooling tower. No text, no labels.